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--> : ''not to be confused with Advanced RISC Machines '' Advanced RISC Computing ('''ARC''') is a specification promulgated by a defunct consortium of Computer manufacturers (the Advanced Computing Environment project), setting forth a standard MIPS RISC -based computer hardware and Firmware environment. Although ACE went defunct, and although no computer was ever manufactured which fully complied with the ARC standard, nonetheless the ARC system still exerts a widespread legacy in that all Microsoft Windows NT -based Operating Systems (such as Windows XP ) used ARC conventions for naming boot devices prior to Windows Vista . Further, SGI uses a modified version of the ARC firmware (which it calls ARCS ) in its systems. All SGI computers which run IRIX 6.1 or later (such as the Indy , Octane , ''etc.'') boot from an ARCS console (which uses the same drive naming conventions as Windows, accordingly). In addition, most of the various RISC-based computers designed to run Windows NT used versions of the ARC boot console to boot NT. Among these computers were:
It was also predicted that Intel IA-32 -based computers would adopt the ARC console, although only SGI ever marketed such IA-32-based machines with ARC firmware (namely, the SGI Visual Workstation series, which went on sale in 1999). Products complying (to some degree) with the ARC standard include:
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