What's the difference between MIPS and RISC?

Question

It says that MIPS is a type of RISC. What is the history? Are both formats / instruction models / programming models, how to tell MIPS from RISC? Is RISC a wider concept?

Answer 1

Yes. RISC is a wider concept. MIPS is RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Chip) architecture. Reduced (RISC) architectures tend to be simpler and have a small number of operations. Complex (CISC) architectures like x86 have more instructions, some of which take the place of a sequence of RISC instructions.

Answer 2

From the mips taginfo page:

MIPS is a common RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), one of the first of its kind. Currently, MIPS can refer to both a hardware implementation of the ISA and the assembly language itself.