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Article #821Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Jim Wong
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:41
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:41
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In article <danpop.808015471@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote: > Nope. Not even Motorola claimed this. A cpu with a 16-bit data bus > and a 16-bit ALU is by no means a 32-bit processor. If depends on how you look at it. To quote Tanenbaum: "If you are ever trying to determine if someone is a hardware person or a software person, ask him if the 68000 is a 16- or 32-bit machine. A hardware engineer will say 16, due to the 16-bit data bus. A programmer will say 32, because the registers are all 32 bits wide." > > The first 32-bit 68k was the 020. Launched about at the same time as > the first 32-bit x86, the 386. The first "true" 32-bit 68k was the 020, launched in 1984. The 386 was released in 1985. -- Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!berlin-15.slip.uiuc.edu!user From: jd-wong@uiuc.edu (Jim Wong) 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: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 03:41:33 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois Message-ID: <jd-wong-1008950341330001@berlin-15.slip.uiuc.edu> References: <te-0608952033540001@mac1-d036a1.uwasa.fi> <405fd2$dss@meaddata.meaddata.com> <408os1$htk@meaddata.meaddata.com> <408tsl$j71@inews> <4095re$4nu@caesar.ultra.net> <danpop.808015471@rscernix> NNTP-Posting-Host: berlin-15.slip.uiuc.edu