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The MIPS CPU family was one of the most successful and flexible CPU designs throughout the 1990s and has found broad application in [embedded systems]?, [Windows CE]? devices, SGI workstations, and Cisco? Internet routers. The Nintendo 64 video game console uses a 64 bit MIPS processor. |
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The MIPS CPU family was one of the most successful and flexible CPU designs throughout the 1990s and has found broad application in [embedded systems]?, [Windows CE]? devices, SGI workstations, and Cisco? Internet routers. The Nintendo 64 video game console uses a 64 bit MIPS processor. |
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The CPU has 32 registers, from which two serve special purposes, the rest being available to generic use, regulated through ABI? conventions. |
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The CPU has 32 registers, from which two serve special purposes, the rest being available to generic use, regulated through ABI? conventions. |
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The design of the MIPS CPU family also played a great role in the development of other RISC architectures, such as SPARC?, [HP Precision Architecture]? and Alpha. |
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The design of the MIPS CPU family, together with SPARC?, another early RISC architecture, greatly influenced later RISC designs like [HP Precision Architecture]? and Alpha. |
Further reading* Patterson and Hennessy: Computer Organization and Design. The Hardware/Software? Interface. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 1-55860-281-X (amazon.com, search) This book about computer design in general, and RISC in particular takes its examples directly from the MIPS architecture. No wonder, since Hennessy was an early collaborator in the Stanford project which became MIPS. |
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