[LazerBear]

Believe it or not they still teach MIPS architecture and assembly in some universities (Technion, Israel for example).

[hajile]

That's because it's a better ISA than ARM or x86 (both of which carry loads of legacy crud) and the early MIPS-related patents have also expired. In addition, there are loads of MIPS textbooks out there.

There are still lots of markets that use MIPS. In addition, China seems interested in a national ISA and seems quite invested in MIPS. I wouldn't write it off just yet.

I would say that MIPS is the only ISA that has definitively proven itself in everything from tiny microcontrollers to multi-core, SMT (hyperthreaded) monsters that run most of the world's networks or the upcoming Chinese petaflop supercomputers.

[vidarh]

Not so strange, given that there are still hundreds of millions of shipped units a year.

[cmelbye]

My university used to do the same, although as of this term that class is now taught using ARM on a Raspberry Pi.

[boombip]

Also teach it still at Waterloo, Canada.

[cbhl]

In the CS department, they do teach a limited subset of MIPS with a Java simulator. But the Engineering labs switched from m68k to ARM about two years ago despite the latter having a much more complex instruction set because of a large hardware donation. :(

[edran]

Edinburgh University student here, first introductory computer system course also introduces assembly and system programming with MIPS.

[Aaronneyer]

It's still taught for our architecture class at Case Western