Editing NEC RISCstation (section)

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The '''NEC RISCstation''' was a line of [[computer]] [[workstation]]s made by [[NEC]] in the mid-1990s, based on [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]] [[RISC]] [[microprocessor]]s 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 (computer networking)|workgroup]] servers.<ref>{{cite magazine
| title      = NEC Ad
| url        = https://archive.org/details/sim_informationweek_1995-02-13_514/page/n87/mode/1up
| date       = 13 February 1995
| page       = 80
| magazine   = [[Information Week]]
| issue      = 514
| url-access = registration
}}</ref>

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 3.5|Windows NT "Daytona"]] at a price between US$6000 to US$10000.<ref>{{cite magazine
| magazine = [[Information Week]]
| url      = https://archive.org/details/sim_informationweek_1994-07-04_482/page/n23/mode/2up
| title    = PC Expo offers variety
| date     = 4 July 1994
| page     = 22
| issue    = 482
| first    = Anthony
| last     = Vecchione
| url-access = registration
}}</ref>