On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > RISC, as a term, may come from IBM, but the concept goes back at least as far > as the CDC 6000 series. Pipelining, to the CDC 7600.
Possibly depending on exactly how you define it, pipelining may go back to the IBM 7030 "Stretch" (1961). Also speculative execution. A lot of "modern" computer architecture concepts are actually quite old.