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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by hajile on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:43PM (#26392051)
MIPS and Berkeley RISC started an entire revolution. They appear "not unique" only because other ISAs copied them so thoroughly. I think it's safe to say that Alpha, ARM, POWER, PA-RISC, etc wouldn't have been designed as they were without MIPS.

Even today, comparing modern MIPS64 and ARM aarch64, I find ARM's new ISA to be perhaps more similar to MIPS than to ARMv7.

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by sidpatil on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:20PM (#26395053)
> They appear "not unique" only because other ISAs copied them so thoroughly.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by guerrilla on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:38PM (#26394773)
I think POWER might have originally been an independent rediscovery of RISC actually, while designing some PBX system.
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