As a young computer-science professor at Stanford in the early 1980s, John Hennessy helped pioneer a new computing concept called RISC, for “reduced instruction set computer.” He expected others to see the value of the idea and commercialize it. When no one did, Hennessy started a company called MIPS. “We never intended to be entrepreneurs,” …
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