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Borrowed from the best.

• AnimalMuppet 6y ago
  For those of us not in the know, from whom were they borrowed?
  • mtgx 6y ago
    This PDF might help, it explains the differences with other ISAs https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p...
  • eddyb 6y ago
    The RISC-V Vector ISA is credited to Cray "vector processors" [1], explicitly by the RISC-V authors. Additionally, I believe experimenting with vector ISAs was mentioned as one of the reasons they started another RISC research project, which ended up being RISC-V. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor
    • CalChris 6y ago
      Yeah, RISC should have been called CISC, Cray Instruction Set Computer.
      • garmaine 6y ago
        Well it is the fifth RISC ISA from the people who invented RISC.
        • agumonkey 6y ago
          CRRRRRISC then