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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-07-21 02:10, Vance Shipley
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:59 PM,
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Finding an untrackable workstation
is more problematic. The best hope I have at the
momment lies in the MIPS project</div>
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<div>I assume this is meant as a reference to the RISC-V
project: <a href="https://riscv.org/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://riscv.org/</a></div>
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<div>This is really interesting stuff. Today it is possible,
using open source tools, <span
style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">to
tape out </span>an open source instruction set
architecture (ISA) <span
style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">processor</span>,
and people are doing it.</div>
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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.<br>
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