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Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by saagarjha on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:22AM (#19461087)
Or, in general, getting code to run on it at all. Almost every OS that hasn’t offered C (and arguably some sort of POSIX) has floundered without gaining traction.
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Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by ken on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:52AM (#19462044)
Almost every OS that has offered C and POSIX has floundered without getting traction, too.

The number of operating systems that have succeeded in any real way is tiny, and probably not big enough to draw any conclusions from. None of the major players today got to where they are now by following the conventional wisdom of their day. I assume the next big OS (or three) will similarly succeed by breaking all the rules we thought we knew.

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