cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14085489
Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
Fascinating. Anybody who just wants to know why they called it “RiscV-ish,” apparently there’s some MIPS thrown in as well.
what does that mean i only understand coding horrible applications, websites, and minetest and minecraft
they extended one set of assembly instructions with a bit of another. instruction sets are determined by the hardware and are called the architecture. RISCV is an extensible architecture meaning you can add in additional instructions without breaking compatibility with programs targeting the architecture.
I know as much as that and that intel has like a giant black box and gatekeeps giving people instructions (and prevents people from being able to fix their fuck ups, backdoors etc)
pog
Creating an open HW and open SW based on Risc-V and linux/bsd/android (whatever) is what the EU should have done for its citizens. But instead of creating something, they only know how to alienate companies. And I don’t mean american companies, but also european ones.