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Interesting to think about that. I remember the SuperH had 16 bit instructions (well, SH-5 was variable length,) I wonder whether that would have become 'our fu
by to11mtm 3y ago
Interesting to think about that. I remember the SuperH had 16 bit instructions (well, SH-5 was variable length,) I wonder whether that would have become 'our future' if ARM hadn't done Thumb back then.
- fidotron 3y agoIIRC ARM did end up licensing the SuperH patents about that. I tend to think SuperH could have been much more of a contender had Hitachi been more willing to license it for integration by others. The one that mystified me was why anyone thought MIPS was viable in this space, other than the fact that it existed. Ultimately MIPS utterly failed to take advantage of their very big wins.