Question 9:

A microprocessor that can move 3 or more instructions through the "fetch, decode, and execute" cycles, in sequence, where there are instructions in each of the different cycles, is a _________ system.

  1. YES! Pipeling can have a different instruction in each of the instruction processing cycles at any given time.

  2. NO. Superscalar is beyond simple 'pipelining'.

  3. No. A network has nothing to do with how a CPU executes instructions.

  4. No. A RISC machine can do pipelining, but it has advanced past pipelining.

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