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In article <36880@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>One more time: calling load-interlocks scoreboards is just marketing
>silliness, confusing, and contradictory to terminology long-used
>in computer architecture.
>Jonathan Smith recently posted a reference to one of the original
>360/91 papers that describe REAL scoreboards, and maybe somebody
>will post a reference to one of the descriptions of the CDC machines
>that have them.
>
see:
 
Design of a Computer, The Control Data 6600
J.E. Thornton
Scott, Foresman and Company Copyright 1970
Library of Congress Catalog Number 74-96462
pp 125 - 134 deal with the scoreboard.

Thornton is identified as VP of the Advanced Design Laboratory, CDC

   "In spite of the large number of computing systems which have been de-
signed and are in use today there is no clear-cut optimum approach to a gen
eral purpose computing system.  Rather, it would seem, we are just begin-
ning to explore the really basic variations from the one address sequential
machines that launched the digital computing industry.

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   System design then began to diverge into parallel structures.  This
book describes one of the early machines attempting to explore parallelism
in electrical structure without abandoning the serial structure of the com-
puter programs.  Yet to be explored are parallel machines with wholly new
programming philosophies in which serial execution of a single program is
abandoned.
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...from the foreword by Seymore Cray

...much deleted from JM's posting
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