Acer PICA
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ACER PICA is a computer architecture (Performance-enhanced I/O and CPU Architecture) designed by Acer circa 1993. It was based on the MIPS RISC CPU and JAZZ architecture. This computer was designed to run Windows NT/MIPS therefore used ARC firmware to boot Windows NT.
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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