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From: lsheldon@cup.portal.com (Laurence Larry Sheldon)
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Subject: Re: Pipelining
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Date: 14 Jul 89 16:11:18 GMT
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New to the net, etc, etc, so I may be asking an un-necessary question--

Whatzit mean--"pipeline"?  There seemed to be an assertion that it was
invented with the RISC notion.

The UNIVAC/Sperry/Unisys 1100's have had instruction stacks(4 or 8--maybe
16 deep) for a long time--that is 4 or more instructions in some state
of decomposition and execution on every cycle.

Izzat the same thing?

Larry

if there was an opinion there--its mine, or I stole it somewhere.