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Parallel Machine

The Z3 was a parallel working machine. The 22 bits from the memory to the Register R1 and vice versa were moved in one step (cycle). The same holds for the binary arithmetic unit, where, among others, two parallel adders (exponent, mantissa) were used.



Slav Petrov 2001-07-02