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Re:MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) by faragon on Friday June 09, 2017 @03:57AM (#14519869)
The 2009 figure is not the year, but a result (the PDF [1] has the Copyright set in 1999)

(Cray I + IBM 801 + RISC II + Clipper C300 + AMD 29K + Motorola 88K + IBM 601 + Intel i960 + Alpha 21164 + POWER 2 + MIPS R4000 + Hitahi SuperH4 + StrongARM 110 + Sparc 64) / 14 = 28126 / 14 = 2009

[1] http://mmix.cs.hm.edu/doc/fasc1.pdf#page=7&zoom=auto,-250,56...

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Re:MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) by Jabbles on Friday June 09, 2017 @04:10AM (#14519933)
Read the next sentence :)
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Re:MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) by technomalogical on Friday June 09, 2017 @11:49AM (#14522204)
TIL deep linking URL syntax for PDFs in Chrome, thanks!
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Re:MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) by faragon on Saturday June 10, 2017 @07:16AM (#14526950)
"The same number may also be obtained in a simpler way by taking Roman numerals."
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