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Some of the same people were involved, no? They must have had a good time writing that. “Things we have learned the hard way”.
by allenrb 3y ago
Some of the same people were involved, no? They must have had a good time writing that. “Things we have learned the hard way”.
- mumbel 3y agoAnd now MIPS, the company, makes RISC-V
- brucehoult 3y agoBerkeley RISC I and RISC II had register windows, and led to SPARC. MIPS was Stanford. And, yes, they learned the hard way that register windows are a bad idea. Patterson says they did it because their compiler didn't have as good register allocation as Stanford's compiler.