That article is nonsensical. Seymour Cray and colleagues and Tomasula and colleagues invented ILP, branch prediction, etc. in the 1960s before C was thought of.

That article is nonsensical. Seymour Cray and colleagues and Tomasula and colleagues invented ILP, branch prediction, etc. in the 1960s before C was thought of. The PDP11 is much more similar to modern x86s than to the weird architectures of the 1970s.