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Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

ARM is absolutely RISC. It stands for Acorn Risc Machines (or maybe it's "Advanced" now?), and was even then a very cool and promising idea, although it lagged behind in speed for a long time. Until the StrongArm came out, I think.

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    https://arm.jonpalmisc.com/latest_aarch64/index.html (Just the base instruction set for the latest ARM architecture without any extensions)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V_instruction_listings (Look at just the I instructions for the base instruction set without the extensions)

    That's... debatable. While the R in ARM does stand for RISC, there are way too many instructions in the base instruction set of the latest ARM ISA for me to comfortably call it a RISC architecture, especially when compared to RISC-V, which has an extremely slim base instruction set comparatively.

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