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Re: [OT] Old kit (was:Re: IP4 Space)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Fri Mar 26 13:43:31 2010
In-Reply-To: <201003261145.18794.lowen@pari.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:42:57 -0500
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Same is true of MIPS and PowerPC, though. =A0There are far more MIPS chip=
s in
> routers than ever saw desktop use in SGI workstations; and while it might=
take
> a little while for Cisco's PowerPC driven routers' CPU's to outnumber all=
the
> PowerMacs our there, one day it will happen.
MIPS are now used as a core in many microcontrollers as an alternative to A=
RM.
I do development using Microchip's PIC32MX which is based on a 32-bits
MIPS M4K core, beautiful piece of silicon and very good performance.
I have a small collection of old gear, somewhere I've a couple of the
old Sinclair Spectrum Z-80 with 16KB RAM !!, amazing that one used to
program those things with 4K and some kids today don't know how to get
started if they don't have a couple of GB's in APIs.
Cheers
Jorge
