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Article #614Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Tuomas Eerola
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 17:33
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 17:33
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In article <3vtkg5$d0n@inews.sc.intel.com>, mvilas@zws298.sc.intel.com (Mark Vilas) wrote: > In article <3vrf2o$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. Also Intel 386SX has 16-bit data path, but Intel has talked about it as 32-bit processor. Why?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mac1-d036a1.uwasa.fi!user From: te@uwasa.fi (Tuomas Eerola) 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: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 20:33:54 +0300 Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland Distribution: world Message-ID: <te-0608952033540001@mac1-d036a1.uwasa.fi> References: <3td01s$ivf@news.iastate.edu> <ian.805333082@bvsd.k12.co.us> <3tpqmj$rck@sashimi.wwa.com> <lewallen-0907952205330001@lub11.onramp.net> <3tqaps$7tr@sashimi.wwa.com> <wanderer-1207952135050001@204.157.204.176> <danpop.805721775@rscernix> <DBpLBn <3up7kp$2c6@nnrp1.primenet.com> <DC84wM.2y4w@austin.ibm.com> <3v36q6$aun@meaddata.meaddata.com> <DCBuI3.y17@austin.ibm.com> <3v5sp4$mm8@atlantis.utmb.edu> <3v71fl$gmh@warp.cris.com> <3vrf2o$ffq@meaddata.meaddata.com> <3vtkg5$d0n@inews.sc.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac1-d036a1.uwasa.fi X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0b30