Was (wer) ist RiscPC - definition
ACORN PERSONAL COMPUTER
Riscpc; Hydra (Simtec); Acorn PC card; Acorn RiscPC; Acorn Risc PC; RiscPC
RiscPC
<computer> The final addition to Acorn's Archimedes family
of personal computers, released in April 1994. The RiscPC
allowed a second processor, e.g. an Intel 486 or a second
ARM, to share the bus, memory and peripherals with the
main processor. It also had full 24-bit colour graphics
support.
The Risc PC 600 (the first to be launched) had the new
ARM600 processor and RISC OS 3.5. The RiscPC 700 had an
ARM710 processor and RISC OS 3.6, and the SA had the
StrongARM processor and RISC OS 3.7.
Castle Technology Ltd later introduced the IYONIX pc with
the 32-bit X-Scale processor and USB sockets. USB and
StrongArm can also be retrofitted to earlier RiscPCs.
RiscPCs are among the most energy efficient home computers.
{Acorn Computer Museum
(http://pages.zoom.co.uk/acorn.computer/riscpc.html) }.
(2004-09-21)
Wikipedia
Risc PC
The Risc PC is Acorn Computers's RISC OS/Acorn RISC Machine computer, launched on 15 April 1994, which superseded the Acorn Archimedes. The Acorn PC card and software allows PC compatible software to be run.
Like the Archimedes, the Risc PC continues the practice of having the RISC OS operating system in a ROM module. Risc PC augments the ROM-based core OS with a disk-based directory structure containing configuration information, and some applications which had previously been kept in ROM. At the 1996 BETT Educational Computing & Technology Awards, the machine was awarded Gold in the hardware category.
