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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by wahern on Friday October 18, 2024 @04:34PM (#41883230)
MIPS64 is still very much alive: https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/er-4

"EdgeOS" is based on Linux, and people run vanilla Linux distributions on those boxes, as well as OpenBSD and NetBSD.

I wonder how long Marvell will continue selling those Octeon MIPS64 chips, though. Marvell (then Cavium) switched to ARM nearly a decade ago (2016) for newer chips in the Octeon series. I think Loongson sells more modern MIPS64 (or at least MIPS64-like) chips, but they don't seem to be commercially available outside China.

Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by t-3 on Sunday October 20, 2024 @08:02PM (#41899542)
They're not widely available in the west, but you can get a whole Loongarch workstation on aliexpress:

https://www.aliexpress.us/w/wholesale-loongson-3a6000.html