Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: Brian Inglis (Brian.Inglis_at_SystematicSW.Invalid)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:30:43 GMT

On 31 Jan 2005 19:51:05 +0200 in alt.folklore.computers, Phil Carmody
<thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:
>> Not really. A CPU still executes only one instruction at a time.
>
>Of all the nonsense you've ever come out with, that has got to be
>the most absurdly wrong. Even last decade it was absurdly wrong.
                                   ^ three
>Six words, old-timer - super-scalar, pipelined, and OOO.

IIRC IBM took out those patents on the 370 (maybe 360) series.
Super-scalar is a more recent marketing term. 

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