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Unlike MIPS Magnum and other JAZZ computers, it was impossible to change an ARC firmware to Big-Endian variant to run RISC/os . The videocard used in the Acer PICA was based on the S3 86C805 chip, not on the G364 Framebuffer .

Acer Formula was a personal workstation based on the Acer PICA architecture. NEC has sold the ACER PICA under the OEM name RISCStation Image .


SOURCES

  • "Mips Challenges Intel on Its Own Turf" Tom R. Halfhill, BYTE June 1993, p.80

  • "RISC workstations: ready for the desktop?" PC-Magazine May 1994.



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