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Zuse Z3 had a three stage instruction pipeline.
by formerly_proven 2y ago
Zuse Z3 had a three stage instruction pipeline.
- adrian_b 2y agoIf this is true, then it resembles in this feature the IBM SSEC, another electromechanical computer with a three stage instruction pipeline, which however was built only later, after WWII, between 1944 and 1947. The main inspiration for IBM SSEC has been Harvard Mark I, an earlier electromechanical computer built by IBM based on a design done mostly by Howard Aiken, but it would not have been impossible for some information about the Zuse computers to have reached IBM after WWII, contributing to the design of the SSEC.