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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Stealing a Great Idea from the 6600
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:00:55 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

> Having gone through the transition (1-wide IO, 2-wide IO, 6-wide OoO)
> the OoO machine was simply less complexity--or to say it a different
> way--the complexity was more orderly (and more easily verified).

Isn’t it true that a recent out-of-order processor can have something like 
100 instructions in flight at the same time? (Probably more by now.)

That would be equivalent to a 100-wide in-order processor, would it not?