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The term scoreboard was introduced with
the first processor with dynamic instruction scheduling, the CDC
6600, produced by Control Data Corporation in 1964: this was the first
real ``supercomputer''.
The 6600 had 16 Functional Units (FUs):
- 4 FP units, 7 integer units and 5 memory units.
A revised design, the 7600 had one, pipelined FP adder and one
pipelined FP multiplier instead of 4 non-pipelined units. The dynamic
instruction scheduling issues are the same.