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From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
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Subject: Re: Re: Mac: 16 or 32 bit?
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 03:19:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 03:19:08 1984
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>     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.
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