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   5 <h1>What is RISC-V?</h1>
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   8 <i><q>[RISC-V]'s not supposed to be "different from other architectures".
   9 It's supposed to be as familiar as possible to compiler writers and
  10 CPU designers, minimizing novelty and surprises and maximizing
  11 precedent so that it can become the <b>Standard Boring ISA</b>.</q></i> <br/>
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  14 &mdash; Stefan O'Rear on <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/forum/#!forum/isa-dev">the isa-dev mailing list</a>
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