On Friday, 12/12/2003 at 07:59 PST, Barton Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, I'd take one small exception. you don't need to be up > on the "latest in processor design", i'm pretty sure pipeline > technology shipped as part of the early 370 series, at > least i remember studying it in the 70's. (158/168 if anyone > remembers?).
As you say, Barton, instruction pipelining has been around for years (usually somewhere near the word "superscalar"), though it wasn't being taught in my university courses in the late 70s. It is getting some fresh ink with the z990 pipelining enhancements. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
