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MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture

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75 points rbanffy | 3 comments | 21 Jul 25 18:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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frollogaston ◴[21 Jul 25 20:00 UTC] No.44639784[source]▶
UC Berkeley's intro to computer architecture course still uses MIPS for projects and exam questions.
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1. shagie ◴[22 Jul 25 00:59 UTC] No.44642192[source]▶
Who else used (uses?) SPIM for this?

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html ... and apparently its being kept up to date https://spimsimulator.sourceforge.net with new builds about every other year.

(I took the class from Professor Miller in... '92... Operating systems in... '94? 95? was from Professor Larus)

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2. infinitifall ◴[22 Jul 25 07:05 UTC] No.44644009[source]▶
A first year course at UNSW, COMP1521[1] teaches MIPS and uses QtSPIM. Far from dead, a package is maintained on the AUR[2].

[1] https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs1521

[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qtspim

3. pjmlp ◴[22 Jul 25 09:48 UTC] No.44644965[source]▶
My university in Portugal did (UNL/FCT), similar timeframe.