15 Sep
2016
15 Sep
'16
5:17 p.m.
On 2016-09-15 2:38 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Also, Apple Computer referred to it as a 32 bit microprocessor in their
early Macintosh ads. I always just considered it a 32 bit CPU with a
16 bit external bus.
- J.
From: Chuck
Guzis
Call it anything you want, but we know what
Motorola called it.
The _first implementation_ may have been 16-bit, but I am in no doubt
whatsover (having written a lot of assembler code for the 68K family)
that the _architecture_ was 32-bit:
- 32-bit registers
- many operations (arithmetical, logical, etc) defined for that length
- 32-bit addresses