That would be really cool: I loved the Mips we had at YorkU.ca --dave On 2018-11-28 2:02 p.m., Dave Taht wrote: > I really don't know a whole heck of a lot about where mips is going. > Certainly they remain strong in the embedded market (I do like the > edgerouter X a lot), but as for their current direction or future > product lines, not a clue. > > I used to know someone over there, maybe he's restored new directions. > Last I recall he was busy obsoleting a whole lot of instruction space > in order to make room for "new stuff". He'd even asked me if adding an > invsqrt to the instruction set would help, and I sadly replied that > that bit of codel was totally invisible on a trace..... > > I really like(d) mips. ton of registers, better instruction set than > arm (IMHO), no foolish processor extensions. > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:26 AM David Collier-Brown wrote: >> On 2018-11-28 11:55 a.m., Dave Taht wrote: >> >>> Thank you for that. I do have a long standing dream of a single chip >>> wifi router, with the lowest SNR possible, and the minimum number of >>> pins coming off of it. I'd settle for 32MB of (static?) ram on chip as >>> that has proven sufficient to date to drive 802.11n.... >>> >>> which would let you get rid of both the L2 and L1 cache. That said, I >>> think the cost of 32MB of on-chip static ram remains a bit high, and >>> plugging it into a mips cpu, kind of silly. Someday there will be a case >>> to just doing everything on a single chip, but... >> I could see 32MB or more of fast memory on-chip as being attractive when >> one is fighting with diminishing returns in CPU speed and program >> parallelizability. >> >> In the past that might have excited MIPS, but these days less so. Maybe >> ARM? IBM? >> >> --dave >> >> -- >> David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify >> System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest >> davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bloat mailing list >> Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat > > -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain