Originally MIPS (or DLX) was the dominant architecture used for teaching computer architecture because the standard Computer Architecture textbook (by one of th

Originally MIPS (or DLX) was the dominant architecture used for teaching computer architecture because the standard Computer Architecture textbook (by one of the main designers of MIPS, David Patterson [1] along with John L. Hennessy [2]) was used in most universities [3]. These two authors were basically the university-lead designers of the RISC philosophy. Patterson's team designed the RISC-I and RISC-II processors (Berkeley RISC [4]). Hennessy and his team designed the MIPS processors (Stanford MIPS [5]). This culmination eventually begot the RISC-V. So yeah, the RISC-V is now the dominant architecture used for teaching computer architecture as they now use RISC-V to teach computer architecture with their latest book edition [6]. Also for more information on that, read [7]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Patterson_(computer_scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Patterson_(computer_scie... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy [3] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-John-Hennessy/dp/012383872X https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-Jo... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_RISC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_RISC [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_MIPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_MIPS [6] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-RISC-V-Architecture/dp/0128122757 https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-RISC-V-A... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#History