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RISC-I Memorabilia page
Have a photo, anecdote or an interesting piece of information from the RISC-I development days to share? Please post them here.
Here are some photos from the RISC project:
- and a wikipedia entry (not written by Dave Patterson) for the whole project.
It would also be nice to give a biographical update given that some of us haven't talked in 30 years. Here is an example:
Dave Patterson
My wife Linda and I celebrated our 47th wedding anniversary last September. Our two sons are married, have children, and homes that are within 10 miles of our home. We have two granddaughters, aged 10 and 16, and a 17-year-old grandson. Below is a group photo from our trip to Disneyland for our granddaughter's 10th birthday. Every year we host a one-week reunion for the extended Patterson family with up to 30 relatives, and the next photo is from the 2013 reunion. For fun I ride bikes, lift weights, and compete in the occasional short triathlon, but what I enjoy most is playing soccer on Sunday mornings with some players that go back to the RISC era.
On the education side, John Hennessy and I wrote two architecture textbooks, both of which are now in their 5th editions. My most recent book is (surprisingly) on software engineering, which Armando Fox and I co-authored.
On the research front, after RISC, Randy Katz and I led the RAID project and then David Culler and I led the Network of Workstations (NOW) Project. My current research projects are in software for genetics processing as an application of the AMP Lab and two hardware projects in the ASPIRE Lab. The first is called Firebox, which is intended to be a much larger building block for the Warehouse Scale Computer of 2020. The second is called RISC-V, whose goal is create a popular open source instruction set. (Its name make sense if you consider the Smalltalk on a RISC (SOAR) project to be RISC-III and Symbolic Processing Using RISCs (SPUR) project to be RISC-IV.)
