@ljrk I don’t know Tomasulo, but the book by Carver Mead and Lynn Conway was so important that it was used as the main reference for chip design in the CS courses that I took in the 1980ies,
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@ljrk I don’t know Tomasulo, but the book by Carver Mead and Lynn Conway was so important that it was used as the main reference for chip design in the CS courses that I took in the 1980ies, 1 comment
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@UlrichJunker Jup, they couldn't erase her from the title of the book. And yet, Mead was described as the Valley's founding father, Lynn not mentioned. Nowadays it's only Tomasulo (whose algorithm is an alternative to scoreboarding) who's remembered.