Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: ISU Student
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 14:48

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In article <te-0608952033540001@mac1-d036a1.uwasa.fi> te@uwasa.fi (Tuomas Eerola) writes:
>From: te@uwasa.fi (Tuomas Eerola)
>Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
>Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 20:33:54 +0300

>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?

The 386 SX processed data 32 bits at a time internally, and could, for the 
most part, run most of the software its DX bigger brother could.

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