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    PC 700) RISC OS 3.70 (StrongARM Risc PC) RISC OS 3.71 (StrongARM Risc PC J233) RISC OS 4.03 (Kinetic Risc PC) RISC OS 4, RISC OS Select, RISC OS Adjust...
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    computer including the Archimedes line, Acorn's R line (with RISC iX as a dual-boot option), RiscPC, A7000, and prototype models such as the Acorn NewsPad and...
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    released their own Risc PC compatible design, the Iyonix PC, which was produced until 2008. RISC OS continued beyond the end of the Risc PC in a limited form...
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    PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction...
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    Acorn Archimedes (category RISC OS)
    mid-1990s alongside Acorn's newer Risc PC and A7000 models. The first Archimedes models, featuring a 32-bit ARM2 RISC CPU running at 8 MHz, provided a...
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    The IBM RT PC (RISC Technology Personal Computer) is a family of workstation computers from IBM introduced in 1986. These were the first commercial computers...
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    Phoebe (computer) (redirect from Risc PC 2)
    The Phoebe 2100 (or RiscPC 2) was to be Acorn Computers' successor to the RiscPC, slated for release in late 1998. However, in September 1998, Acorn cancelled...
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    boxes (STBs),[citation needed] and has been noted as a successor to the RiscPC. Pace had a licence to develop RISCOS Ltd's OS sources for use in the STB...
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    In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions...
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  • assistant (PDA) microprocessor market today. Acorn in the 1990s released the Risc PC line and the Acorn Network Computer, and also had a stint in the set-top...
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  • Castle Technology (category RISC OS)
    computers that run RISC OS. Following the break-up of Acorn in 1998, Castle Technology bought the rights to continue production of the RISC PC and A7000+ computers...
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  • RISC OS, the computer operating system developed by Acorn Computers for their ARM-based Acorn Archimedes range, was originally released in 1987 as Arthur...
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    RISC iX is a discontinued Unix operating system designed to run on a series of workstations based on the Acorn Archimedes microcomputer. Heavily based...
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  • there to RISC-V International, a Swiss non-profit entity, in November 2019. Similar to several other RISC ISAs, e.g. Amber (ARMv2) or OpenRISC, RISC-V is...
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  • RISC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. RISC is an abbreviation for reduced instruction set computer. RISC or Risc may also refer to: Berkeley RISC Classic...
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  • next PC. Note that in classic RISC, all instructions have the same length. (This is one thing that separates RISC from CISC). In the original RISC designs...
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    Precision Architecture RISC (PA-RISC) or Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture (HP/PA or simply HPPA), is a general purpose computer instruction set...
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    as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for...
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  • for PC". MEmu. Retrieved 28 September 2022. "Noxplayer". bignox. Retrieved 28 September 2022. "LDPlayer - Lightweight & Fast Android Emulator for PC". LDPlayer...
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    Livingston, Christopher (October 16, 2015). "The biggest leaks in PC gaming". PC Gamer. Schreier, Jason (April 3, 2013). "Five Years and Nothing to Show:...
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    A9home (category RISC OS)
    version of RISC OS. When the Iyonix PC was withdrawn from sale, the A9home remained the only hardware to be manufactured specifically for the RISC OS marketplace...
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    Acorn A7000 (category RISC OS)
    the Risc PC architecture. Launched in 1995, the A7000 was considered a successor to the A5000, fitting into Acorn's range between the A4000 and Risc PC600...
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  • IBM PC compatible PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports and for Acorn Archimedes keyboards (prior to the RiscPC, this was proprietary, while the RiscPC and later...
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    486 CPUs. The chips were even used on later Acorn RiscPC "PC card" second processors. The RiscPC's OpenBus memory interface was only 32 bit, which meant...
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  • SNES and PlayStation in 1995, 3DO in 1996, Sega Saturn in 1997, Acorn Risc PC in 1998, Game Boy Advance in 2001, Xbox 360 in 2006, iOS in 2009, and Nintendo...
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  • the BBC Micro and Atom at first and later the Electron, Archimedes and Risc PC. The first issue was dated July/August 1982. From the April 1984 issue...
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  • and portions of the IBM RISC Single Chip (RSC) processor, but also included support for the vast majority of the new PowerPC instructions not in the POWER...
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  • from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2010-05-08. "Qualcomm MSM7227 RISC Chipset". PDADB. Retrieved 2010-05-08. "GoForce 6100". Nvidia. Retrieved...
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    Arm Holdings plc (formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a British semiconductor and software design company...
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    RISC CPU. The system was renamed to the PC-FX, the "PC" believed to be a nod to the PC Engine brand. Unusual for a fifth generation console, the PC-FX...
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