Editing NEC RISCstation (section)

==Operating systems==
Several [[operating system]]s supported RISCstations.

Like all Jazz-based MIPS computers (such as the [[MIPS Magnum]]), the RISCstations ran the [[ARC (specification)|ARC]] console [[firmware]] to boot Windows NT in [[little-endian]] mode. The MIPS III architecture was capable of either little-endian or [[big-endian]] operation.

However, Microsoft stopped supporting the MIPS architecture in Windows NT after version 4.0. RISCstations ceased production in 1996.

In addition to Windows NT, NEC ported a version of [[Unix System V]] to the RISCstation.

Although support is lacking from [[Linux]]/MIPS for the RISCstation series, they are supported by [[NetBSD]] as NetBSD/arc<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> and had been supported by [[OpenBSD]], prior to the termination of the port in 1998.<ref>{{cite web
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| title       = OpenBSD arc
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