Penguin

Differences between current version and previous revision of MIPS.

Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History

Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:41:15 pm by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Sunday, August 10, 2003 3:56:19 pm by JamieCurtis Revert
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
-MIPS is the name of a company, processor core and instruction set
+An [Acronym] for __M__icroprocessor without __I__nterlocked __P__ipeline __S__tages
  
-MIPS processors are a simple [RISC] architecture and were best known for being the processor at the heart of many Silicon Graphics machines as well as being the processor on the original Sony Playstation
+A simple [RISC] [CPU] design geared for [Compiler] friendliness. Its instruction set is very simple and easy to learn and was used for many years as a teaching architecture for the Computer Systems course at WaikatoUniversity before being replaced with a full custom design
  
-MIPS the company now make almost all of their money designing processor cores and licensing them to other manafacturers who place this core inside their products.  
-  
-The instruction set is very simple and easy to learn and was used for many years as a teaching architecture for the Computer Systems course at WaikatoUniversity before being replaced with a full custom design .  
-  
- http://www.mips.com for lots more information and documentation  
+It was the result of a StanfordUniversity project that became a commercial product, best known as the heart of many [Silicon Graphics|SGI] machines as well the original [Sony] ~PlayStation . The design is now owned by [MIPS Technologies | http://www.mips.com], a wholly-owned subsidiary of [SGI] since 1992 that operates as an independent unit and make almost all of their money licensing processor core designs to other manufacturers who embed them into their own products.