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RISC-V is basically a MIPs ripoff with healthy architectural inspiration from ARM. There is a linux distro for RISC-V, and there's no reason Python or nodejs et
by muricula 7y ago
RISC-V is basically a MIPs ripoff with healthy architectural inspiration from ARM. There is a linux distro for RISC-V, and there's no reason Python or nodejs etc. can't run on it.
https://riscv.org/2015/01/a-linux-distribution-for-risc-v/ https://riscv.org/2015/01/a-linux-distribution-for-risc-v/
- opencl 7y agoThere is a perfectly good reason that NodeJS does not run on RISC-V Linux, which is that NodeJS has not been ported to RISC-V. Projects like Node (or rather the underlying V8 engine) have nontrivial amounts of architecture-specific code.
- skratlo 7y agoThat's a plus, at least the platform won't get infected by node.js virus
- russler23 7y agoJS is inevitable, it just has a flattened curve.
- microcolonel 7y agoI can attest to that, though it looks as though the work involved in each part is decreasing.
- ampdepolymerase 7y agoMIPS is the original RISC one. RISC V is the fifth iteration of the line.
- CalChris 7y agoNo, Stanford MIPS is a separate lineage from Berkeley RISC. RISC RISC II SOAR SPUR RISC-V https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-6.pdf https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-... As for the original OG RISC, I think that'd be the Cray 1.
- FullyFunctional 7y agoAs always, the obsession with firsts is a fools errand. The IBM 801 and the CDC 6600 are often mentioned as some of the earliest candidates. As so often with technology, it's a function of the context. In the case of RISC, integrated circuits were reaching capabilities that made it worthwhile reconsidering the conventional wisdom.
- CalChris 7y agoThe 6600 didn't have general purpose registers. It had operand, address and increment registers. The 801 development began in October 1975. The Cray 1 had been in development for 4 years when it was released in 1975. So I'll go with the Cray as being to OG RISC. But yes, firsts don't really matter except to say it sure wasn't the Berkeley RISC or the Stanford MIPS.
- msla 7y agoNever seek after "firsts" too avidly. I've seen people claim the rock is the first computer, and an IBM mainframe running VM/CMS is the first personal computer. (You get your own personal CMS instance running on the massive, institutional big iron, see?)