Essentially pipelining, several years before the RISC movement popularised it? Could the Z80 have been one of the first pipelined single-chip CPUs? I don't thi

Essentially pipelining, several years before the RISC movement popularised it? Could the Z80 have been one of the first pipelined single-chip CPUs? I don't think you can call it a pipeline, they only state that the different parts of the instruction are being decoded in parallel. For instance, which instruction will be executed and the register associated with the operation. There is no instruction pipeline.