IBM Corp seems to have servers – own brand an bought-in, coming out of its ears, but it can’t have enough of a good thing, it seems. It currently offers high-end PS/2s as servers, has the PS/Server line designed by Parallan Computer Inc above those, and it gets Rios RISC-based servers from Auspex Systems Inc. It even has the server versions of the AS/400, but our sister paper Unigram.X also hears that it is working on a pair of symmetric multiprocessor servers built around the PowerPC 601 chip. The units, one a desktop box in an 80386 form factor, the other a deskside unit that goes by the name of Pegasus, would expand to take up to four processors. Although these machines could run any of the handful of operating systems IBM intends supporting on the PowerPC, they look right now to be heavily AIX-based, with Wabi as an add-on.
