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Article #1130Re: Debate: PowerMac
From: Richard Perrott
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:42
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:42
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> |> In article <3vrf2o$ffq@meaddata.meaddata.com>, christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes: > > > |> Actually, there is a convention to describe bitness, while maybe > |> not "generally agreed-upon", most processors adhere to it, > |> including the 8088 and the 68000. This is data path width. This > |> is not to be confused with register size or external data bus > |> width. Both the 8088 and the 68000 have 16 bit data paths and are > |> thus classified as 16 bit processors. > Chris is rather confused me thinks: 8088 16/8bit data internal 8bit external data bus 68000 32/16/8bit data internal 16bit external data bus he obviously can't read data sheets :^)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!yama.mcc.ac.uk!dmu!usenet From: Richard Perrott <HCM94RP2@dmu.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac Date: 16 Aug 1995 13:42:27 GMT Organization: De Montfort University, Central Newsserver Leicester UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <40ssk3$ela@macondo.dmu.ac.uk> References: <3td01s$ivf@news.iastate.edu> <ian.805333082@bvsd.k12.co.us> <408os1$htk@meaddata.meaddata.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mkcsug01.mk.dmu.ac.uk