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It was intel's (at least) second OoO processor, after i960 - from which it pulled important team members.


Was i960 OoO?


Yes, with branch prediction and speculative execution too


Interesting, apparently it did scoreboarding like the CDC6600 and allowed multiple memory loads in flight, but I can't find a definite statement on whether it did renaming (I.e. writes to the same registers stalled). It might not be OoO as per modern definition, but is also not a fully on-order design.




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