8 Nov
2007
8 Nov
'07
7:24 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Eric J Korpela wrote:
Hmm... So, why was the Sega Genesis billed as a 16-bit machine? It uses a
68k.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
So what's
your thoughts on the 8088? 16-bit registers, 8-bit data path
(but with 16-bit addressing). Is it a 16-bit CPU or an 8-bit CPU?
ALU and internal data path are 16 bits. It's essentially an 8086
multiplexed down to an 8 bit external data bus. That makes it a 16
bit processor in my book, albeit a crippled one. For the same reason
a MC68008 is a 16 bit processor in the same way that the MC68000 is.