Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 00:21:31 03/10/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 23:07:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >that's the wrong way to measure this. the 8080 was a 16 bit cpu if you use >that logic. The 68000 had a 16 bit bus. I taught hardware design courses at 16 bit external data bus, yeah. But how wide were the register busses? How wide was the ALU? I believe the answer to both questions is 32-bit. And BTW, the 286 used similar "register pairs" as the 8080 (AX = AL , AH). Does that mean the 286 is 8-bit? You can go either way with your argument logic. -Tom
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