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MIPS and Berkeley RISC started an entire revolution. They appear "not unique" only because other ISAs copied them so thoroughly. I think it's safe to say that A
by hajile 6y ago
MIPS and Berkeley RISC started an entire revolution. They appear "not unique" only because other ISAs copied them so thoroughly. I think it's safe to say that Alpha, ARM, POWER, PA-RISC, etc wouldn't have been designed as they were without MIPS.
Even today, comparing modern MIPS64 and ARM aarch64, I find ARM's new ISA to be perhaps more similar to MIPS than to ARMv7.
- guerrilla 6y agoI think POWER might have originally been an independent rediscovery of RISC actually, while designing some PBX system.
- sidpatil 6y ago> They appear "not unique" only because other ISAs copied them so thoroughly. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...