Re: [OT] Old kit (was:Re: IP4 Space)

[Jorge Amodio <jmamodio () gmail com>]

> Same is true of MIPS and PowerPC, though.  There are far more MIPS chips 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 ARM.

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