RISC is an abbreviation for reduced instruction set computer.

RISC or Risc may also refer to:

Computing

  • Berkeley RISC
  • Classic RISC pipeline, a component of early RISC aicrorchitectures
  • CompactRISC, National Semiconductor family of RISC architectures
  • MIPS RISC/os, a discontinued UNIX operating system developed by MIPS Computer Systems
  • OpenRISC, a project to develop a series of open-source hardware
  • PA-RISC, an instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard
  • Research Institute for Symbolic Computation in Linz, Austria
  • RISC iX, discontinued UNIX operating system
  • RISC OS, operating system created by Acorn Computers
  • RISC OS character set, used in the Acorn Archimedes
  • History of RISC OS, Acorn Computers OS history
  • RISC OS Open Ltd., (ROOL) a company engaged in computer software and IT consulting
  • Risc PC, Acorn computer launched in 1994
  • RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture

Other

  • RNA-induced silencing complex, a multiprotein complex involved in gene silencing
  • Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center, a building on the campus of Lafayette College.

See also

  • Risk (disambiguation)