9 Nov
2007
9 Nov
'07
4:33 a.m.
Eric J Korpela wrote:
Somehow people are turning this statement into some
sort of praise for
intel's architecture.
No, we're turning this statement into "a central PROCESSING unit should
be labeled by it's PROCESSING width".
But just because the 80286 sucks and it's a 16
bit processor, that doesn't turn the 68000 into a 32 bit processor.
It's just a better 16 bit processor.
I honestly can't fathom how you are labeling a CPU with 32-bit registers
and 32-bit bitwise and math operations a 16-bit processor.
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