Over the years, has more computer progress been made in computer architecture or computer organization?

What will be an ideal response?


It is difficult to precisely quantify progress in these two aspects of the computer. The question should be interpreted to mean greater relative progress. It appears to me that greater progress has been made in the area of organization rather than in architecture. For example, the programmer’s model of Intel’s IA32 architecture has not changed greatly since the 80386. However, the performance of this family has changed massively in the same period. Much of this performance is due to technological advances in manufacturing, and in organization (e.g., the use of on?chip cache memory, pipelining, branch predication, parallel processing, and so on).

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