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From: skinner@saber.UUCP (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Code Generation (register byte,
Message-ID: <1887@saber.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 13:16:24 EST
Article-I.D.: saber.1887
Posted: Fri Dec 13 13:16:24 1985
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> /* Written 12:02 am  Nov 26, 1985 by opus.UUCP!rcd in trsvax:net.lang.c */
> /* ---------- "Re: Code Generation (register byte," ---------- */
> 
>    Actually I think Apple was guilty of promoting, vigorously, the idea
> that the 68000 was/is a 32-bit processor.  In comparing the Mac to the
> IBM PC, their literature has "32-bit" plastered all over it.  Personally
> I like the title of one of Motorola's manuals, "M68000 16/32 Bit 
> Microprocessor".

It's at least as honest as calling an 8088 a 16 bit processor.  Geez.


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