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bogomipz
on Aug 8, 2016
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Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels?
Sorry that shouldn't have said OoO, register renaming and micro-ops I meant.
monocasa
on Aug 8, 2016
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It did register renaming too. It was designed by Tomasulo of Tomasulo's algorithm.
bogomipz
on Aug 9, 2016
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Wow, this is kind of blowing my mind that they were doing this with a hard-wired control unit in 1969(I think I have the date right.) Big Blue, its easy now a days to forget just how amazing they were. Do you have links you can recommend? Thanks.
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