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Believe it or not they still teach MIPS architecture and assembly in some universities (Technion, Israel for example).

That's because it's a better ISA than ARM or x86 (both of which carry loads of legacy crud) and the early MIPS-related patents have also expired. In addition, there are loads of MIPS textbooks out there.

There are still lots of markets that use MIPS. In addition, China seems interested in a national ISA and seems quite invested in MIPS. I wouldn't write it off just yet.

I would say that MIPS is the only ISA that has definitively proven itself in everything from tiny microcontrollers to multi-core, SMT (hyperthreaded) monsters that run most of the world's networks or the upcoming Chinese petaflop supercomputers.

Not so strange, given that there are still hundreds of millions of shipped units a year.

My university used to do the same, although as of this term that class is now taught using ARM on a Raspberry Pi.

Also teach it still at Waterloo, Canada.

Edinburgh University student here, first introductory computer system course also introduces assembly and system programming with MIPS.

In the CS department, they do teach a limited subset of MIPS with a Java simulator. But the Engineering labs switched from m68k to ARM about two years ago despite the latter having a much more complex instruction set because of a large hardware donation. :(

It's still taught for our architecture class at Case Western

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