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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.tomockey.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael S Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 11:10:55 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <20240505111055.00006545@yahoo.com> References: <2024May2.193747@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2024May3.105130@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <20240503174020.0000753a@yahoo.com> <20240505041249.0000297f@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 10:10:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="21af9704c55270fa9c775b4b6edb77e1"; logging-data="1849344"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18QgqsoYYb3rkxReckq4l+86DYSUQGOZzw=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:vMl/xFi9o9uSN5KTI3IZWVr9aKk= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.19.1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 2327 On Sun, 5 May 2024 04:36:34 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Sun, 5 May 2024 04:12:49 +0300, Michael S wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 May 2024 00:26:49 -0000 (UTC) > > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > > >> thought that delayed branches were a good idea, and so it remained > >> saddled with that (mis)feature for the rest of its life. > > > > Delay slot was deprecated back in MIPSr6, almost a decade ago. > > But that would be a backward-incompatible change, would it not? It would not. They added a new set of branches, but preserved an old set. If I understand their intentions correctly, the old stuff was supposed to be removed in the next release of the ISA. But then two things happened simultaneously: 1) they invented nanoMIPS, which made incompatible release of "classic" MIPS redundant 2) their financial troubles escalated