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Obligatory mention: "RISC instruction sets I have known and disliked." https://www.jwhitham.org//2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-have-known-and.html https://w
by chasil 4y ago
Obligatory mention:
"RISC instruction sets I have known and disliked."
https://www.jwhitham.org//2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-have-known-and.html https://www.jwhitham.org//2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-ha...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607119
I might also say that Sun's UltraSPARC was constantly beaten by Fujitsu SuperSPARC. It would have been better to outsource.
- pinewurst 4y agoSuperSPARC was an earlier TI manufactured part. Fujitsu was (and I think still is) SPARC64, which was a nice series of parts, originally designed by HAL. I used to own a Fujitsu server - fast and built like a brick outhouse.