On 5/7/2010 2:54 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Ah, so
the 8080, Z80 and 6809 are all 16 bit processors, then? They all
have machine instructiosn that can change all the bits in a 16-bit register.
Then I'll clarify it to be the size of the accumulator.
Is someone
seriously challenging that the IBM PC 5150 wasn't a 16-bit
computer?
Well, I only see an 8 bit databus on the schematics...
You're a hardware guy :)
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