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Re:How to become the sole owner of your PC [pdf] by 4ad on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:51AM (#11760744)
Well I have no idea how ARC came into existence, but looking at the ISA, it has nothing in common with SPARC (I write SPARC compilers for a living, so I know the ISA pretty well).
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Re:How to become the sole owner of your PC [pdf] by mattbee on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @08:17AM (#11760907)
I don't know the full story it was a spin-off of the work that Argonaut did for the SuperFX chip in Star Fox on the SNES -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_%28processor%29
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