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>>Henry, why do you say that 32-bit ints are "generally better" on
>>68000's and 68010's? ...
>
>16-bit ints are a bit limiting at times.  Admittedly this is not common,
>but it is a nuisance.  And then there are the sloppy programmers ...

Note also that, at least in the case of vendors who really wanted to
make 32-bit machines, that using the 680[01]0 as a 32-bit-"int" machine
meant that they could switch to the 68020 without requiring everybody to
recompile their code - Sun-2 binaries that doesn't use some Sun-2-only
hardware (I think the Sun-2 had a Sky Computers floating-point board
that fell into this category) can run on a Sun-3, modulo any
release-to-release binary incompatibilities, and I presume the same is
true of systems from Apollo, HP, and possibly others.