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===6152 Academic System===
{{See also|IBM ROMP|IBM RT PC}}
The 6152 Academic System was a [[Workstation|workstation computer]] developed by IBM's Academic Information Systems (ACIS) division for the university market introduced in February 1988. The 6152 was based on the PS/2 Model 60, adding a RISC Adapter Card on the [[Micro Channel]] bus. This card was a co-processor that enabled the 6152 to run [[IBM ROMP|ROMP]] software compiled for IBM's [[Academic Operating System]] (AOS), a version of [[BSD UNIX]] for the ROMP that was only available to select colleges and universities.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=LaPlante |first=Alice |date=1988-02-08 |title=Workstation Merges PS/2, RT Technology |magazine=InfoWorld |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=1, 81}}</ref>

The RISC Adapter Card contained the ROMP-C microprocessor (an enhanced version of the ROMP that first appeared in the [[IBM RT PC]] workstations), a [[memory management unit]] (the ROMP had [[virtual memory]]), a [[Floating-point unit|floating-point]] [[coprocessor]], and up to 8{{nbsp}}MB of memory for use by the ROMP.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s)--> |title=IBM Academic System 6152: Quick Reference and Reference Diskette |date=January 1988 |page=2}}</ref> The 6152 was the first computer to use the ROMP-C, which would later be introduced in new RT PC models.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=The University of Michigan Computing Center |year=c. 1988 |title=UNIX Notes |magazine=U-M Computing News |volume=3 |page=19}}</ref>