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Subject: Re: Processor speed

Author: John Coffey

Date: 16:23:01 03/09/00

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>So by your definition, a PC with SDRAM is 64-bit, whereas a new Pentium III with
>Rambus memory is 16-bit. Or maybe 256-bit, due to the interface to the L2 cache?
>Gets confusing quickly...
>


I am not going to make any claims to modern processors that I don't program.
The 68000 fetched data and instructions from memory 16 bits at a time.  I don't
see anything wrong with my definition.

John



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