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Ah, yes.

What did that use internally?



It was all discrete, hard logic circuits centered around a unit called the scoreboard. That term was borrowed from either Burroughs or CDC, I can't remember which. That machine pioneered many of the scalar optimizations that are common in today's architectures.




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