Re: is Vax addressing sane today

In article <vdlg6h$3kq50$1@dont-email.me>, david.brown@hesbynett.no
(David Brown) wrote:

On 03/10/2024 02:07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

It was NT that was the commercial failure, not MIPS. MIPS found a
niche in the embedded world, and went on to outsell x86 by a
factor of 3:1 or so.

 
The key markets for MIPS were network devices (managed switches,
routers, small Wifi/NAT routers, etc.) and multimedia devices
(smart TVs, Bluray players, set-top boxes, etc.).
 
These have mostly been overtaken by ARM these days.

And MIPS, the company, has abandoned its own architecture in favour of
RISC-V. <https://mips.com/>

John