Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 08:12:10 01/21/05
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On January 21, 2005 at 10:39:17, Steve B wrote: >Significant strides in terms of playing strength were made in the Dedicated >chess computer market once the industry utilized the Motorola 68000 16 bit >Processor "The MC68000 external data bus and internal data paths are 16 bits wide, and the CPU may fetch and process two bytes at a time from memory. However, any 68000 CPU regardless of data bus size is properly called a 32-bit machine...because the largest operand handled by a majority of 68000 data operations is 32 bits wide." --Microcomputer Architecture and Programming (1981), pp 434, John F. Wakerly > >the processor was especially suitable for the types of instructions used to >calculate a chess move > >eventually 68020 32 bit and 68030 and 68040 processors were also used > >here is the very first chess computer to incorporate the 68000 16 bit processor > >The Legendary Mephisto Excalibur: > > >http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=e674.jpg&.src=ph > >Best >Steve
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