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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
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On Sat, 04 May 2024 15:18:37 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> Personally I prefer ARM64 architecture over MIPS64 by a considerable
> margin, in almost all respects ...

I know MIPS (like SPARC) originated in that brief window when it was 
thought that delayed branches were a good idea, and so it remained saddled 
with that (mis)feature for the rest of its life.