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amanda@aggregatet.org 4 months ago
Apparently the instruction set is off-brand MIPS64?!
I don’t think that is what they mean by “which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.“
It is. Originally they were a MIPS-like, then they licensed it and became MIPS-compatible, then they extended it into their own instruction set.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I don’t think that is what they mean by “which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.“
breakingcups@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It is. Originally they were a MIPS-like, then they licensed it and became MIPS-compatible, then they extended it into their own instruction set.