Note that RISC5 [1], a project created as a target for Wirth's Oberon compilers, is a different project from RISC-V [2], a project created at Berkeley which became what is currently the most popular open source ISA.
[1] https://riskfive.com/RISC5_overview.htm
It is funny that RISC-V International moved to Switzerland in 2020 so now both projects can be found in the same place.
nah
dash is hard to type and vee is hard to pronounce
it is five and that's more convinient