[clamchowder]

That's an interesting take considering I read the old CDC brochures and docs, and wrote the article using the equivalent modern terms.

For example, what their training manual calls "third-order conflicts" are called WAR (write-after-read) hazards today. "first-order conflicts" mean either a functional unit is busy or a RAW hazard.

I hope people in the future will not default to assuming everything is AI generated, and instead do due diligence by looking at the sources and what's written. I took a lot of care to understand the original docs and reframe it in modern terms, even though it's an April Fools joke.

But if no one cares maybe I should try using AI to generate stuff sometime.

[pinewurst]

It's the combination of brochure voice and usage of present tense that gave me that impression. If I was writing this description as a hominid, it would be past tense and in a neutral, third person voice.

[clamchowder]

Have you considered the date (4/1)? Maybe that has something to do with why an article about a 1960s thing is written in present tense?

If describing how an architecture works is "brochure voice" then I guess pretty much any technical deep dive is. Not sure how to avoid that.

Serious question now, would a company's brochure call out that their functional units are not pipelined? Because none of their original documentation did.

[xcv123]

Happy April fools day, hominid!