Author: Steve B
Date: 08:36:03 01/21/05
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>"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." thank you for your post i stand corrected the first use of the Motorola processor by dedicated computers only used 16 bits of data path not until the 68020 processor do we see the full 32 bits being used by the programers below is the first dedicated computer(module) to use a 68020 32 bit processor the Mephisto Dallas,winner of the 1986 World Micro Computer Championship: http://www.schachcomputer.at/rardallas32.htm Best Steve
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