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The progression of headlines is funny: 1) MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8258092 https://news.ycombinator
by zokier 6y ago
The progression of headlines is funny:
1) MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8258092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8258092
We are still in the game
2) Linux-running MIPS CPU available for free to universities – full Verilog code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444567
Okay, we are not doing so great, maybe we can get young kids hooked?
3) MIPS Goes Open Source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701145
Open Source is so hip and pop these days, lets do that!
4) Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19460470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19460470
Yeah, sure, that'll happen
5) Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22950848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22950848
Whoops
6) Loose Lips Sink MIPS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24402107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24402107
And there is the answer to the question from previous headline
And now we are here.
- rwmj 6y agoI have one of the purple MIPS SBCs from back when MIPS was briefly owned by Imagination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination_Creator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination_Creator https://elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20 https://elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20). Slow as hell even back in 2014. I wonder if one day it'll be a museum piece :-?
- ChuckMcM 6y agoYes it will. You should preserve it and/or donate it once you no longer want or need it.
- Zenst 6y agoNot any time soon as can still buy them: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/single-board-computers/1253305/ https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/single-board-computers/125330...
- jhallenworld 6y agoI have a tube of IDT R3041s and R3051s. I remember using GCC compiled for a DECStation 2000 to write code for them. (I made a hand-held computer based on R3041). I also have a tube of ARM 610s (VY86C060s I think) from the same project, but R3041 was PLCC, whereas ARM was fine pitch PQFP. PLCC was easier to deal with at the time...
- trulyme 6y agoIs it something special? If no, then no.
- rwmj 6y agoIn the sense that it's part of the history of the decline and fall of MIPS. In terms of performance, software availability, desirability or anything else, well not so much :-)
- Koshkin 6y agoMicrochip PIC32 seems to be plenty fast.
- zokier 6y agoCompared to what?
- cptskippy 6y agoProbably shortly after the Z80s I pulled out of a PBX back in 2000 thinking they'd be hard to come by and worth something some day.
- sidpatil 6y agoYou're telling me. I had a few Z80s in a tube for a while. I was hoping I'd get to sell them to NASA one day haha.
- tyingq 6y agoI've seen listings on eBay for Intel 4004s, 8008s, and other chips at what seem like crazy prices. I wonder if anyone buys them. Here's someone thinking they'll get $120 for an old Russian Z80 clone: https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-vintage-gold-cpu-ceramic-Zilog-Z80-Intel-8080-MOS-6502-4004-8008/222536817527?hash=item33d03a5b77:g:w~4AAOSwXc9cJgeZ https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-vintage-gold-cpu-ceramic-Zilog...
- paulburton 6y agoAt least you have a purple one - they were a lot better than their green forebears :)
- dv_dt 6y agoI had to do a quick context switch to make sure by ISA they meant Instruction Set Architecture not Industry Standard Architecture (ISA Bus)...