8 May
2010
8 May
'10
9:01 p.m.
On Sat, 8 May 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 20:46:06 -0700
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Subject: Re: Greatest videogame device (was Re: An option - Re: thebeginningof
On 8 May 2010 at 20:46, Jim Leonard wrote:
Hey, thats not as bad as the definition of processor size = external data bus
width, with that definition, an microcontroller would be a 0 bit machine...
Peter Wallace
It means we can never come to agreement on the
subject. You're a
hardware guy, so naturally you consider the bit-ness of a CPU to be
the size of the data bus. I'm a software guy, so I consider the
bit-ness to be the size of the registers (ALU for the anal among us).
So, the National SC/MP and RCA 1802 were 1-bit microprocessors?
That's sure to start a fight somewhere...
--Chuck