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It was originally designed as an educational project to teach students simple CPU design.
by quelsolaar 6y ago
It was originally designed as an educational project to teach students simple CPU design.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoI don't think that's right, or if it is, Wikipedia [0] is giving a misleading account: > The plan was to help both academic and industrial users. Practicality seems to have been a goal from the start, unlike DLX/MIX/MMIX which were primarily intended for teaching. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#History
- hajile 6y agoMost people learn MIPS in college, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t battle tested or usable for commercial chips.
- brucehoult 6y agoThe problems with MIPS are not technical or ecosystem or being battle-tested or not. The problem is it is proprietary and since sometime between when SGI spun it out (and the expected rise of Itanium) and the purchase by Imagination Technologies it has been run by a series of incompetent and/or people who just want to extract as much money as possible and then get out. They've had some great technical people throughout who have revamped an modernized it, but in the end it's the proprietary nature and mismanagement that has been more important.