floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoNew Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Boardwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoAs someone out of the loop on modern RISC, what is the benefit of RISC versus x86/64?
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 year agoThe specific benefit of RISC-V vs other architectures is that it is open source, so can be used without having to pay a fee to the company that owns it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
minus-squareReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoAh, open source - that’s an advantage for sure, thank you.
As someone out of the loop on modern RISC, what is the benefit of RISC versus x86/64?
The specific benefit of RISC-V vs other architectures is that it is open source, so can be used without having to pay a fee to the company that owns it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
Ah, open source - that’s an advantage for sure, thank you.