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[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

And why you call the 68000 as 32-bit ?

Originally the 8086 had a 16-bit data bus. But the data bus doesn't follow
the address bus which is often bigger.

Basically a true 16-bit machine will have 16-bit registers, more than
16-bit address bus and a FULL 16-bit ALU (6809 cannot make 16-bit AND,OR,
etc).

The 68008 used on Sinclair QL has 8-bit data bus too.



On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> I always wondered why the CoCo is referred to as an 8-bit machine,
> whereas the original IBM PC, which also had an 8-bit bus and 16-bit
> registers, was consistently referred to as a 16-bit machine.
>
> Art
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
> <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But for what you use your old 8-bit today? not for making your resume,
> not
> > for making your tax account or reading emails. We use just for fun, and
> > being fun, is an attractive for young people.
> >
>
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