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		aap_ on April 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004) You mean as opposed to the other architectures mentioned in the article? ppc, mips, itanium and alpha. Two of which are utterly dead, one of which looks like it's dying (mips) and one that is little more than a niche product (ppc).

colejohnson66 on April 20, 2022 [–]

It seems that MIPS has almost been entirely relegated to the academic space for courses on processor architecture

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