LOL. Well, MIPS was just an ivory tower academic design... <duck and cover> (for the record for everyone, I heart MIPS and I teach MIPS... ) On 2/9/2020 1:27 PM, Andrew Diller wrote:

My outrageous claim: I think a whole exhibit dedicated to just MIPS evolution... it's a fascinating arch and one that counts as a classic 90's UNIX powerhouse.

But of course, that is just my opinion....

Bare Min should include: MIPS R3k, R4k, R5k, R10k, R12k, R14k and the R16k.

There is a good case to be made that MIPS pushed the boundaries of RISC evolution in the 90's and if it weren't for the Itanium disaster would be a strong contender nowadays...

-andy

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On Feb 9, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

VCF is working on a historical exhibit of CPUs (not really support chips at this point). Literally just the CPUs.

What should we have at the bare minimum? 4004, 8008, 8088, 8086, 6502, Z80, 6800, 6809...?