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3. Mission statement

The mission of the Freedom Project is to develop a new high-performance 64-bit CPU architecture, suitable for Personal Workstation use, and to implement this architecture in the available process technology. The new F-CPU architecture must support gcc and the Linux kernel (customizing these pieces of software is part of the Freedom Project). The implementation(s) must also conform to commodity PC technical requirements (e.g. an F-CPU mainboard has to fit in a standard PC case, with a standard PC keyboard connector, standard PCI bus connectors, etc.).

It is perhaps useful to mention development issues that are not part of the Freedom Project, e.g.:

This mission statement pretty much delimits the performance envelope of the F1 implementation, and somehow also influences the final CPU architecture.


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