RISC History Photos, RISC II chip CIF description
IBM "801" Internal Prototype, 1975-80:
U.C. Berkeley "RISC I" 1980-81:
larger size RISC I microphotograph
U.C. Berkeley "RISC II" 1981-82:
RISC II chip description file, in CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form),
believed to be as sent for fabrication in late 1982:
RISC II chip CIF file
(568,066 Byte ASCII text file).
Full text available on-line for:
the RISC II architecture and chip design are descibed in the thesis:
M. Katevenis:
"Reduced Instruction Set Computer Architectures for VLSI",
1984
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award,
MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-11103-9, 1985.
RISC II microphotograph - 2160x1226 pixels (1.3 MBytes)
RISC II microphotograph - 4072x2674 pixels JPEG format (9.8 MBytes)
RISC II microphotograph - 4386x3383 pixels TIFF format (44.5 MBytes)
Stanford "MIPS" 1981-83:
larger size MIPS microphotograph
David Patterson and Carlo Sequin, 1981:
RISC I Designers, 1981:
Left to right:
Jim Peek, Korbin VanDyke, Zvi Peshkess, Dan Fitzpatrick, John Foderaro
RISC II Designers, 1981:
Manolis Katevenis, Robert (Bob) Sherburne
RISC CAD Tools Builders, 1981:
RISC Group, 1982:
U.C. Berkeley "Forefront" Magazine Cover, 2001-02:
U.C. Berkeley "IRAM" Group, 2001: