19 Jul
2016
19 Jul
'16
5:10 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
RISC, as a term, may come from IBM, but the concept
goes back at least as far as the CDC 6000 series. Pipelining, to the CDC 7600.
Possibly depending on exactly how you define it, pipelining may go
back to the IBM 7030 "Stretch" (1961). Also speculative execution.
A lot of "modern" computer architecture concepts are actually quite old.