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Superscalar dates to the CDC 6600, a machine I don't understand very well; branch prediction I think dates to Stretch, but the 70s at latest; instruction and data caches were commonplace in high-performance computers by the 1970s, and as the article points out, the 6600 had I$, and the 360/85 had a cache too (not sure if split). I'm not sure about register renaming and speculative execution, but I'd be surprised if they date from as late as the αXP.



Register renaming was IBM 360/91 1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo_algorithm


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