How did this awful ISA become so widespread?
>>107864786it was better than MIPS and the only other serious competition in that space of super shitty slow and low power processors, enabling it to become the dominant ISA for mobile phones which makes up the majority of computer hardware.
Very easy:>x86 is supremely popular at current time>but expensive licensing>not a lot of alternatives>and it's bad in small devices>people who own ARM show up, say "hey ours can be modified to work in small devices, also we'll license it to you a bit cheaper">repeat for 2 decadesthat's it.reminder that risc-v will replace both within a decade or two because it's free
>>107864786Hey, I was "against" ARM at first, but now I'm fucking interested. Also Linux box64/86 and FEX are hype as fuck. And they even managed to get that shit running on RISC-V. And most gay ass FOSS software just needs to be recompiled and if thats not possible, it's much more simple to port an ARM app (program) to RISC-V. Soon we will be free from backdoored chips.
>>107864864>reminder that risc-v will replace both within a decade or two because it's freeI hope HE will see this day.
>>107864864the future is loongson
>>107864786All of the other RISC ISAs were worse.
>>107864786caches well
>>107864786Tel Aheeb, pls. What else would you have us all use, (((intel)))?
