[Discuss] Is RISC-V ready for prime time?

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:24:07 -0400
"Dale R. Worley" <Dale.Worley at comcast.net> wrote:

> they had a monopoly on SPARC processors, or at least, in licensing the
> IP therefore.  Hence they had an incentive to ensure all of the
> hardware interface bric-a-brac was well-defined for whatever class of
> computers they were targeting.

I feel the need to turn this on its head: why do you think RISC-V
*isn't* well-defined? Your arguments imply that you think RISC-V is
some kind of half-baked amateur CPU architecture with no academic or
industrial support.

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