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by boombip 4437 days ago
Also teach it still at Waterloo, Canada.
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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. :(
Edinburgh University student here, first introductory computer system course also introduces assembly and system programming with MIPS.