9 May
2010
9 May
'10
10:01 p.m.
On Thursday 06 May 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
I have a machine here that I could justify any of the
following
numbers of bits for :
1 (Bit serial ALU for binary operations)
3 (Physical width of user program memory)
4 (width of the ALU for BCD operations)
6 (logical width of user program memory)
8 (physical width of user data memory, and I/O bus)
16 (logical witdh of user data memory, also size of most processor
registers).
The "bit" size of a process is whatever the manufacturer choises to call
the device.
Seriously, what value does this conversation have?
Pat
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