MIPS Magnum

MIPS Magnum - Processors. As mentioned, the MIPS Magnum 3000 includes a MIPS R3000A processor running at either 25 MHz or 33 MHz. The MIPS Magnum R4000 PC-50 includes a MIPS R4000PC processor with only 16 kB primary cache (but no secondary cache), running at an external clock rate of 50 MHz (which was internally doubled in the microprocessor to 100 MHz). The MIPS Magnum R4000 SC-50 is identical to the Magnum R4000PC, but includes one megabyte of secondary cache in addition to the primary cache. < ...

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A chipset is a group of integrated circuits ("chips") that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product. In computing, the term chipset is commonly used to refer to the specialized motherboard chips on a computer or expansion card. When discussing personal computers (PCs) based on recent Intel Pentium-class systems, the term "chipset" often refers to the two main motherboard chips: the northbridge and southbridge. The manufacturer of a chipset can be, and often is, independent ...

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RISC OS was a rapid development of Arthur 1.2 after the failure of the ARX project. The first release was to be called Arthur 2, but was renamed to RISC OS 2, and was first sold as RISC OS 2.00 in April 1989. It had co-operative multitasking with some limitations, but was not multithreaded. It used the ADFS filesystem for both floppy and hard discs. It initially ran from a 512 KB ROM module. The WIMP interface offered all the standard features and fixed many of the bugs that had hindered Arthur. It lacked virtual memory and ext ...

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RISC OS 5 is a separate evolution by Castle Technology Ltd based upon work done by Pace Micro Technology for their NCOS based set top boxes. RISC OS 5 was written to support Castle's Iyonix PC line of Acorn-compatibles, which run on the Intel XScale ARM processor. Although a wealth of software has now been updated, a few older applications can only be run on RISC OS 5 via an emulator, since a minor 26-bit ARM CPU function was removed by Intel from the XScale. Likewise, RISC OS 5 itself had to be ported to run properly on the new CPU, ...

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Acorn halted work in all areas except Set-top boxes in late 1998, and the company was renamed to Element 14 (the 14th element of the periodic table being silicon). RISC OS development was halted during the development of OS 4.0, a beta version, OS 3.8, was released to developers. This led to a number of rescue efforts, including the creation of the ROX Desktop to provide a RISC OS-like interface on Unix and Linux systems. Two similar ...

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RISC OS 3.00 was released with the A5000 in 1991; it was almost four times the size of RISC OS 2 and ran from a 2MB ROM. It improved multitasking and also placed some of the more popular base applications in the ROM. RISC OS - RISC OS 3.1. RISC OS 3.1, was released later which was sold built-in to the A3010, A3020, A4000, A4 and later A5000 models. It was also made available as replacement ROMs for the A5000 and earlier Archimedes machines, this is the last version suitable for those machines. Three varian ...

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MIPS Magnum - Windows NT. The MIPS Magnum R4000 ran either Windows NT (beginning with version 3.1) when equipped with the little-endian ARC firmware, or RISC/os when MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.'s proprietary big-endian firmware (the "MIPS Monitor") was installed. The firmware could be switched between ARC or MIPS Monitor by loading either one into the Magnum's FLASH memory/NVRAM from floppy disk, and thus the Magn ...

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The MIPS Magnum 3000 used a MIPS R3000 processor and a custom, proprietary motherboard which incorporated the Turbochannel bus licensed from DEC (it is noted that DEC also manufactured the DECstation line of workstations running Ultrix, which also used MIPS processors and the Turbochannel bus). The Magnum 3000 ran only RISC/os, which was MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.'s proprietary port of BSD Unix including some System V features. The later Magnums, the MIPS Magnum R4000PC and MIPS Magnum R4000SC, also used a MIPS microprocessor — the ...

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Model number information. MIPS Magnum - MIPS Magnum 3000. Alternative model name: MIPS RC3230 Release: March, 1990 Initial price: $9000 USD Bus: Turbochannel Maximum possible RAM: 128 MB MIPS Magnum - MIPS Magnum R4000. Two subtypes: The R4000 PC-50 and R4000 SC-50 Release: April, 1992 Initial price: $12,000.00 USD Bus: EISA Maximum pos ...

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