because it was so much more efficient and effective than Intel's designs)
each instruction "accumulated" the dependencies of all prior instructions
being issued in the same batch. This works because read and write
-dependencies are *transitive* (Google it...)
+dependencies are *transitive* (whenever a -> b and b -> c then a -> c).
What that means, in practical terms, is that we have a way to create a
design that could, if ramped up, take on the big boys. To make that