NEC RISCstation

Not to be confused with Simtec Electronics RiscStation R7500, a machine similar to the Acorn A7000.

The NEC RISCstation was a line of computer workstations made by NEC in the mid-1990s, based on MIPS RISC microprocessors and designed to run Microsoft Windows NT. A series of nearly identical machines were also sold by NEC in headless (i.e., no video card or framebuffer) configuration as the RISCserver series, and were intended for use as Windows NT workgroup servers.[1]

The RISCstation 2000 was announced in June 1994 by NEC with an availability slated for the end of that summer with the release of Windows NT "Daytona" at a price between US$6000 to US$10000.[2]

  1. ^ "NEC Ad". Information Week. No. 514. 13 February 1995. p. 80.
  2. ^ Vecchione, Anthony (4 July 1994). "PC Expo offers variety". Information Week. No. 482. p. 22.