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RISC/os
OS familyUnix-like
See also RISC OS, an operating system originally developed by Acorn Computers.

RISC/os is an operating system distributed by MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. during the 1980s and 1990s for use with their MIPS Magnum line of computer workstations.

RISC/os was based largely on the 4.3BSD Unix release, ported to the MIPS architecture.

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