[u-u] Odds and Ends

[David Gilbert]

On 2018-07-21 02:10, Vance Shipley wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:59 PM, David Gilbert <uu at dclg.ca
> <mailto:uu at dclg.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Finding an untrackable workstation is more problematic.  The best
>     hope I have at the momment lies in the MIPS project
>
>
> I assume this is meant as a reference to the RISC-V project: 
> https://riscv.org/
>
> This is really interesting stuff. Today it is possible, using open
> source tools, to tape out an open source instruction set architecture
> (ISA) processor, and people are doing it.

Thanks for the correction.  Isn't MIPS open-source, too?  Anyways, the
excitment is that not just the processor, but also the chipset.  Recall
that a version of minix is hiding in your desktop's chipset if you're
dealing with a newer than about 2008 intel PC.

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