6 May
2010
6 May
'10
10:21 p.m.
On 5/6/2010 12:41 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Is the IBM PC
8 bit (width of the data bus) or 16 bit?
16-bit. Until the day I die.
I thought it was proper practice to note a CPU based on the size of it's
internal registers and/or the number of bits that can be changed in a
single operation.
Is someone seriously challenging that the IBM PC 5150 wasn't a 16-bit
computer?
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