I stumbled upon an interesting blog today while searching for an image of the Silicon Graphics 3D cube logo. Named "Abort Retry Fail" by Bradford Morgan White, the blog's articles document computer history. I eventually wound up reading three of them.
#1 "The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics"
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics
Общеобразовательное о том, какие процессоры могут быть по архитектуре. С экскурсом в историю развития.
«Как Intel создал ARM, ARM похоронил MIPS, на очереди X86?» На нескольких видео-хостингах:
Как «яблоко» #Apple и «жёлудь» #Acorn объединившись создали ARM — Advanced RISC Machines в 1990-м, хотя в оригинале это было Acorn RISC Machine с 1985-м года.
Первый релиз на ARM6 состоялся в 1992-м году и был это КПК — Apple Newton PDA на базе процессора ARM610.
Для получения именно десктопного процессора #PowerPC эта же самая Apple с 1991 года была в альянсе с #IBM и #Motorola работавшими над #RISC процессором архитектуры Power. В результате работы альянса над этой архитектурой стало семейство PowerPC процессоров.
В это время у Sun Microsystems было семейство SPARC — тоже на базе RISC, ставшее процессорами и для рабочих станций и для серверов. Первые системы #SunMicrosystems на процессорах #SPARC начали поставляться в 1987 году и на 1989 год были дешевле Intel 80386 процессора.
Кстати, именно серверные RISC-процессоры уже стали 64-х разрядными в реальных машинах, когда #x86 только планировали выбираться из 32-х разрядности.
#hardware #CPU #процессоры #intel #ARM #MIPS #x86 #CISC @russian_mastodon @ru @Russia
Checking In On the ISA Wars and Its Impact on CPU Architectures - An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/18/checking-in-on-the-isa-wars-and-its-impact-on-cpu-architectures/ #instructionsetarchitecture #microcontrollers #currentevents #hardware #interest #cpuisa #risc-v #x86_64 #mips #arm
Under the title link you will find a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code, which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language. The tool now supports not only 68k, but also MIPS architecture:
/* Init the INDY HPC I/O controller. Need to call this before fucking with the memory controller because it needs to know the boardID and whether this is a Guiness or a FullHouse machine. */
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13/source/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c#L36-L38
Does anyone have any buying advice for #mips workstations/servers (for relatively cheap)?
I've wanted to play around with one for ages, e.g. with the software TLB stuff. There are some consoles that were MIPS based which is cool too, but e.g. the psx lacks virtual memory at all.
#TIL that if you are working with an CPU architecture that can work in either little endian (LSB) or big endian (MSB) mode (looking at you here MIPS), and under Linux you execute a binary for the other endian mode don't be expected to see an error along the lines of line 1: syntax error: unexpected "("
#linux #mips
#AlpineLinux 3.21: Lean, mean, and #LoongArch-ready
Alpine #Linux follows closely upon the release of a new #LTS kernel version: 6.12
Alpine 3.21 has a raft of other updates along with the kernel: updated development tools including .NET 9, and new desktops including KDE Plasma 6.2, LXQt 2.1, and GNOME 47
The version before this one, Alpine 3.20, added #RISCV back in May. Now, it gains another: the quite #MIPS-like Chinese #Loongson
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/alpine_linux_321/
Loongson-CPU im Test: Der Mini-PC mit dem China-Prozessor im Benchmark (Update) https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozessoren/morefine-mini-pc-loongson-cpu.90008/#update-2024-11-29T11:25 #linux #loongson #morefine #mips
Loongson-CPU im Test: Der Mini-PC mit dem China-Prozessor im Benchmark https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/pc-systeme/morefine-mini-pc-loongson-cpu.90008/ #linux #loongson #morefine #mips
Friday night and I’m cross compiling #9front for little endian #mips (spim) on a #pi400 using vnc on an iPhone. #partyanimal
Wonder what happened to Ralf Baechle, he was always helpful with my newbie #linuxmips questions many years ago. #linux #mips #sgi #sgiO2
So, I've been really into #psxdev lately and I'm at a point where I maybe want to make a smol game.
I'm not sure about whether to try and
make an actual PS1 game (not using Psy-Q obviously) and distribute an ISO (are there any problems with this?); or
just use my knowledge to implement some of the important constraints (framebuffer size, screen res, GTE numeric formats, GPU primitives).
Or just whip up a quick and dirty fantasy console using one of my favourite archs like #m68k or #mips? I've made a MIPS core before, so that's not a big deal.
I want to share thing, so it wouldn't matter to most people, but I also want to have fun spelunking and getting to the lowest-level possible. It feels kind of self-indulgent to care about these kinds of details.
I invite discussion!
#Seagl2024 presents: Alpine on LoongArch, the Chinese sovereign ISA
By: Ariadne Conill
Friday, 11/08 17:00PST
Category: Systems and Platforms
Link: https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/talk/BGDVSU/
#FOSS #FLOSS #LoongArch #China #CPU #MIPS #ARM #RiscV #x86
There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One - It’s not uncommon for a new distro version to come out, and a grudging admission t... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/21/theres-no-lower-spec-linux-machine-than-this-one/ #retrocomputing #linuxhacks #linux #mcs-4 #mips
