12 Sep
2016
12 Sep
'16
1:42 p.m.
On Sep 12, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 September 2016 at 03:43, Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> wrote:
It was from a forum post, and the editors should have caught it. The existence of
"32-bit clean" ROMs does not imply that the prior ROMs ? or CPU architecture! ?
were 16-bit, or that operating systems that ran on them were.
-- Chris
This person was talking about 680x0-based Macs
being ?16-bit.? Ugh.
Well, to be specific, the interviewee was talking about something that
is networking-specific on System 7.5, which implies pre-7.6 and thus
pre-Open Transport. IIRC 7.6 is also the first release that requires
32-bit clean ROMs -- 7.5 and earlier didn't.
So it sounds like a legitimate misunderstanding, probably via
over-zealous editing.