Excellent point. MIPS overplayed its hand. It's funny how this story repeats itself over and over again, yet companies never seem to learn. The flipside of th

Excellent point. MIPS overplayed its hand. It's funny how this story repeats itself over and over again, yet companies never seem to learn. The flipside of this is when companies like Apple, Microsoft and Adobe, like it or not, become part of the de facto tech learning arc for college students, who one day grow up to be senior engineers, lead engineers, architects and principal engineers.