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Re:MIPS R3000 by monocasa on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:06PM (#20235510)
Alpha is bae. PowerPC is great as long as you don't look at the fever dream nightmare that is it's supervisor state.
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Re:MIPS R3000 by kristopolous on Thursday June 20, 2019 @03:05PM (#20236149)
Want one? I've got a 600mhz sitting in the cost. Totally works. I'm in Los Angeles
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Re:MIPS R3000 by monocasa on Thursday June 20, 2019 @03:12PM (#20236218)
Haha, my partner would be unhappy if I came home with another stray, but I appreciate the offer. : )
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Re:MIPS R3000 by kristopolous on Thursday June 20, 2019 @04:23PM (#20236955)
Hrmm. I could do a login if you really want. I have an openvms and netbsd disk.

I've been trying to not take this thing to ewaste for a decade

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Re:MIPS R3000 by pkaye on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:30PM (#20235783)
Alpha had a weakly-ordered memory model though.
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Re:MIPS R3000 by monocasa on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:57PM (#20236081)
Yeah, but it wasn't that big of a deal in practice. I sort of like that it was such a weak memory model that you just explicitly had to synchronize any sorts of cross thread comms.
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Re:MIPS R3000 by ncmncm on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:45PM (#20239170)
MIPS never had any memory model at all! They might have one, by now, most likely cribbed from PPC, ARM, or Itanic. Or maybe more than one!
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