[chasil]

Obligatory mention:

"RISC instruction sets I have known and disliked."

https://www.jwhitham.org//2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-ha...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607119

I might also say that Sun's UltraSPARC was constantly beaten by Fujitsu SuperSPARC. It would have been better to outsource.

[pinewurst]

SuperSPARC was an earlier TI manufactured part. Fujitsu was (and I think still is) SPARC64, which was a nice series of parts, originally designed by HAL. I used to own a Fujitsu server - fast and built like a brick outhouse.