I&#x27;m not saying one should expect or demand it in a project like this, but minimalistic pipelining should be doable; both the 6502 (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.6502.org&#x2F;users&#x2F;andre&#x2F;65k&#x2F;arch.html#pipelining" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.6502.org&#x2F;users&#x2F;andre&#x2F;65k&#x2F;arch.html#pipelining</a>) and (IIRC) the 8080 started fetching the next instruction before finishing execution of the current one, where possible.