[rescue] NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP?

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.cc>
" 
" And SPARC is arguably one of the most open CPU available, although  when this 
" fact is mentioned, I frequently see comments that MIPS is more open than SPARC. 

i was fascinated to read that after sun had moved on to sparcv9,
someone came up with a totally-open inplementation of the v8
architecture - i think there was an aerospace [nasa?] connection
somewhere.  and also interesting is that when the design was
published/released, they said a gate array implementation could run at
400MHz.

ah, the march of progress...
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was mips always open?  or did that come about after the collapse of
mips workstations and their realignment into the embedded market?
sparc was iirc always open.
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