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I met Richard Stallman in 2013. He used a Lemote Yeelong which was powered by a MIPS Loongson CPU.
by v4n4d1s 9y ago
I met Richard Stallman in 2013. He used a Lemote Yeelong which was powered by a MIPS Loongson CPU.
- 0footprint 9y agoYes, what's funny about that is that is a Chinese designed processor which at first refused to pay royalties to MIPS. FYI for whoever: MIPS (the company) had major financial issues and was purchased by Imagination tech in 2013. But their patents ended up with a group of companies, including some which went to ARM. MIPS as at one point the fastest CPUs (from a millions instructions per seconds stand point) you could buy, and were in high-end SGI boxes.
- bitwize 9y agoI saw him recently. He is using a ThinkPad these days, probably one of those refurbed and reflashed ones with a free BIOS.
- icebraining 9y agoYeap. Thinkpad X60, running libreboot and Trisquel: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
- digi_owl 9y agoIn large part because someone stole his bag, computer and all.