Editing IBM ROMP (section)

{{Other uses|Romp (disambiguation){{!}}Romp}}
{{Infobox CPU architecture
| name = ROMP
| designer = [[IBM]]
| bits = [[32-bit computing|32-bit]]
| introduced = commercially {{Start date and age|1986|01}}
| design = [[Reduced instruction set computer|RISC]]
| type = [[Load–store]]
| encoding = Variable (2 or 4 bytes long)
| branching = [[Status register|Condition code]]
| endianness = 
| page size = 4 KB
| open = No
| gpr = 16× 32-bit
}}
[[Image:Romp.jpg|thumb|150px|right|ROMP]]
The '''ROMP''' is a [[reduced instruction set computer]] (RISC) [[microprocessor]] designed by [[IBM]] in the late 1970s. It is also known as the '''Research OPD Miniprocessor''' (after the two IBM divisions that collaborated on its inception, [[IBM Research]] and the Office Products Division (OPD)) and '''032'''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Heberlein |first=Larry |title=A programmer's view of the PC RT chip |magazine=Computer Language |volume=3 |issue=10 |date=October 1986 |pages=41–46}}</ref> The ROMP was originally developed for office equipment and small computers,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hester |first1=P.D. |last2=Simpson |first2=Richard O. |last3=Chang |first3=Albert<!-- Citation bot-->|url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/pc/rt/SA23-1057_IBM_RT_Personal_Computer_Technology_1986.pdf|chapter=The IBM RT PC ROMP and Memory Management Unit Architecture|title=The IBM RT Personal Computer Technology, Form No. SA23-1057|editor-first=Frank|editor-last=Waters|page=48}}</ref> intended as a follow-on to the mid-1970s IBM [[OPD Mini Processor]] microprocessor,{{citation needed|date=March 2012}} which was used in the [[IBM Office System/6]] word-processing system. The first examples became available in 1981, and it was first used commercially in the [[IBM RT PC]] announced in January 1986. For a time, the RT PC was planned to be a [[personal computer]], with ROMP replacing the [[Intel 8088]] found in the [[IBM Personal Computer]]. However, the RT PC was later repositioned as an engineering and scientific [[workstation computer]]. A later [[CMOS]] version of the ROMP was first used in the [[coprocessor]] board for the [[IBM 6152 Academic System]] introduced in 1988, and it later appeared in some models of the RT PC.