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| Also known as | IBM RS/6000 |
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| Developer | IBM |
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| Release date | February 1990 |
| Discontinued |
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| CPU | IBM POWER or PowerPC |
| Predecessor | IBM RT PC |
| Successor | eServer pSeries IntelliStation POWER IBM ThinkPad Power Series |
| Related | IBM PC Power Series |
The RISC System/6000 (RS/6000) is a family of RISC-based Unix servers, workstations and supercomputers made by IBM in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT PC computer platform in February 1990 and is the first computer line to see the use of IBM's POWER and PowerPC based microprocessors. In October 2000, the RS/6000 brand was retired for POWER-based servers and replaced by the eServer pSeries. Workstations continued under the RS/6000 brand until 2002, when new POWER-based workstations were released under the IntelliStation POWER brand.