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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, an alpha version, not some revival of SPARC. I know RISC-V laptops are almost a thing, and MIPS is trying to make a comeback. It's not beyond the realm of what's possible.

Certainly it's better than my initial read of System76 doing anything with COSMAC.

[–] brakenium@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

This is about the cosmic desktop environment, not a CPU architecture