RiscPC

    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.

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   (2004-09-21)