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MIPS RISC/os

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RISC/os was an operating system distributed by MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. during the 1980s and 1990s for use with their computer workstations and servers, such as the M/120 server or MIPS Magnum workstation. It was also sometimes referred to as MIPS OS.

RISC/os was based largely on UNIX System V with additions from 4.3BSD UNIX, ported to the MIPS architecture.

Because of this early UNIX heritage, RISC/os was limited in comparison to modern UNIX variants—for example, even the last releases of RISC/os did not support shared libraries.