Re:A new RISC-V version of uLisp
by muricula on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:29PM
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RISC-V is basically a MIPs ripoff with healthy architectural inspiration from ARM. There is a linux distro for RISC-V, and there's no reason Python or nodejs etc. can't run on it.
https://riscv.org/2015/01/a-linux-distribution-for-risc-v/
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There is a perfectly good reason that NodeJS does not run on RISC-V Linux, which is that NodeJS has not been ported to RISC-V. Projects like Node (or rather the underlying V8 engine) have nontrivial amounts of architecture-specific code.
Re:A new RISC-V version of uLisp
by microcolonel on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:13AM
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I can attest to that, though it looks as though the work involved in each part is decreasing.
That's a plus, at least the platform won't get infected by node.js virus
JS is inevitable, it just has a flattened curve.
Re:A new RISC-V version of uLisp
by ampdepolymerase on Friday March 20, 2020 @08:57PM
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MIPS is the original RISC one. RISC V is the fifth iteration of the line.
No, Stanford MIPS is a separate lineage from Berkeley RISC.
RISC
RISC II
SOAR
SPUR
RISC-V
As for the original OG RISC, I think that'd be the Cray 1.
Re:A new RISC-V version of uLisp
by FullyFunctional on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:03AM
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As always, the obsession with firsts is a fools errand. The IBM 801 and the CDC 6600 are often mentioned as some of the earliest candidates. As so often with technology, it's a function of the context. In the case of RISC, integrated circuits were reaching capabilities that made it worthwhile reconsidering the conventional wisdom.
The 6600 didn't have general purpose registers. It had operand, address and increment registers. The 801 development began in October 1975. The Cray 1 had been in development for 4 years when it was released in 1975.
So I'll go with the Cray as being to OG RISC. But yes, firsts don't really matter except to say it sure wasn't the Berkeley RISC or the Stanford MIPS.
Never seek after "firsts" too avidly. I've seen people claim the rock is the first computer, and an IBM mainframe running VM/CMS is the first personal computer. (You get your own personal CMS instance running on the massive, institutional big iron, see?)