The list of names in the RISC-V specification documents was a true and bold statement about just how serious they all were : (1) Andrew Waterman, Yunsup Lee, David A. Patterson, and Krste Asanović, "The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I: Base User-Level ISA", Technical Report UCB/EECS-2011-62, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, May 13, 2011. (2) Andrew Waterman, Yunsup Lee, David Patterson, Krste Asanović, "The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I: User-Level ISA Version 2.0", Technical Report UCB/EECS-2014-54, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, May 7, 2014 (3) Andrew Waterman, Yunsup Lee, Rimas Avižienis, David A. Patterson, and Krste Asanović, "The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume II: Privileged Architecture Version 1.7", Technical Report UCB/EECS-2015-49, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, May 9, 2015. (4) Andrew Waterman, Yunsup Lee, David A. Patterson, and Krste Asanović, "The RISC-V Compressed Instruction Set Manual, Version 1.7", Technical Report UCB/EECS-2015-157, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, May 28, 2015. (5) Andrew Waterman, Yunsup Lee, David Patterson, Krste Asanović, "The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I: User-Level ISA Version 2.1", Technical Report UCB/EECS-2016-118, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, May 31, 2016. (6) Andrew Waterman, Yunsup Lee, Rimas Avižienis, David A. Patterson, and Krste Asanović, "The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume II: Privileged Architecture Version 1.9", Technical Report UCB/EECS-2016-129, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, July 8, 2016. Yes indeed. Truely impressive work and all of it from the hallways of the singular EECS Department at University of California, Berkeley. There is every reason to believe that this thing could be more than just another experiment on some breadboards. We have seen this sort of thing before and with the biggest name in the whole computer world. Here I wave around my copy of "Volume 1 Fascicle 1, MMIX: A RISC Computer for the New Millennium (2005)" which is part of "The Art of Computer Programming" by Donald E. Knuth. I have never seen anything in hardware that claims to be a MMIX computer and therefore the RISC-V may also just be a lot of hot air in the lab.

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