Re: is Vax addressing sane today

On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:43:53 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:

[MIPS] has been abandoned and replaced by RISC-V several years ago.

I’m not so sure the MIPS architecture has been “abandoned”. Last I heard,
it was still shipping hundreds of millions of chips per year. Also those
Chinese supers run LoongArch, which is some sort of MIPS derivative.

It is true that there is no more money to be made from licensing any “MIPS
IP”, which is why Imagination Tech, the inheritors of whatever was left of
MIPS the commercial operation, have switched to being a RISC-V-centric
company now.