Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site intelca.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!kds From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: Mac: 16 or 32 bit? Message-ID: <202@intelca.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 03:19:08 EST Article-I.D.: intelca.202 Posted: Thu Feb 9 03:19:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 06:37:55 EST References: <780@ihuxi.UUCP>, <6200032@hp-pcd.UUCP> <177@tymix.UUCP> Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 13 > As far as I am concerned, Apple is playing by the same rules in calling >the 68000 as 32 bit machine. If IBM can call the 8088 a 16 bit machine, then >the 68000 is a 32 bit one. close, but not quite, the 8088 has a 16 bit ALU, just like the 68000, so picking nits, an 8088 is closer to a 16 bit machine than a 68000 is to a 32 bit machine. But, in reality, people call things whatever they want to, regardless of reality. Personally, I have a 2**20 bit machine, since that is the amount of memory in my PC! (aren't numbers wonderful?) -- Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. {pur-ee,hplabs,ucbvax!amd70,ogcvax!omsvax}!intelca!kds