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On 4/25/2024 12:45 PM, Michael S wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:34:32 +0000
> mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:
> 
>> Michael S wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:52:36 +0000
>>> mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seymore only did fast and simple, starting before the CDC
>>>> 6600.....
>>
>>> Do you attribute not exactly simple 6600 Scoreboard to Thornton?
>>
>> If you measure simplicity by gate count--the scoreboard was
>> considerably simpler than the reservation station design of Tomasulo.
> 
> Both were far from simple by day's standards.
> 
> BTW, was not low gate count of Scoreboard mostly due to creative usage
> of what was later named wired logic connections, i.e. something that
> stopped working in high-speed VLSI around 1985-1990 ?
> 

Still kinda funny in a way that one can't really extrapolate backwards...

Say, seemingly no one built an 8/16 bit mainframe, or say using 24-bit 
floats (Say: S.E7.F16) rather than bigger formats, ...

Like, seemingly, the smallest point of computers was seemingly things 
like the 6502 and similar...


Also funny to think in a way that Binary16 is the newer format, because 
seemingly previously no one bothered with floating-point numbers much 
smaller than 32-bits (despite the usual expected trend of things getting 
bigger over time).

....