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Why the CDC 6400 ran one instruction at a time

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CDC 6400, Systems
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CDC 6000 series (Wikipedia)
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Due to the serial nature of the 6400 CPU, its exact speed is heavily dependent on instruction mix, but generally around 1 MIPS.
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