[garmaine]

Borrowed from the best.

[AnimalMuppet]

For those of us not in the know, from whom were they borrowed?

[eddyb]

The RISC-V Vector ISA is credited to Cray "vector processors" [1], explicitly by the RISC-V authors.

Additionally, I believe experimenting with vector ISAs was mentioned as one of the reasons they started another RISC research project, which ended up being RISC-V.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor

[CalChris]

Yeah, RISC should have been called CISC, Cray Instruction Set Computer.

[garmaine]

Well it is the fifth RISC ISA from the people who invented RISC.

[agumonkey]

CRRRRRISC then

[mtgx]

This PDF might help, it explains the differences with other ISAs

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p...