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Article #1060Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Peter Payne
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 12:40
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 12:40
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Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
> The size of the data bus is pretty irrelevant to the bitness of a processor.
> The sizes of the general purpose registers _and_ the ALU are the important
> factors. This is what makes the 8088 a 16-bit cpu, the 386SX and the
> Pentium 32-bit cpu's and the 68000 so difficult to define :-)
What, in physical terms, is a bus and how would a 32-bit bus look
differently from a 16-bit one?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!gol1!gol1!not-for-mail From: leto2@gol1.gol.com (Peter Payne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 15 Aug 1995 21:40:33 +0900 Organization: Seishun Shitemasu - a bunch of guys with a vcr Message-ID: <40q4k1$gmf@gol1.gol.com> References: <3vtkg5$d0n@inews.sc.intel.com> <40ljas$lfn@eken.hv.se> <danpop.808396976@rscernix> NNTP-Posting-Host: gol1.gol.com X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 1.0d5