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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Nintendo
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Date: 12 Feb 90 14:12:18 GMT
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In article <76954@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> rafael t yu <yu-r@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>Actualy, the 68000 is a 16-bit processor,  and the 68020 and above are 32-bit.

I don't know what you mean by such labels as "16-bit processor".
There are numerous data paths in a modern computer, not all of them
having the same width.  Motorola advertises the M68000 as a "16/32-bit
microprocessor".  For a general-register architecture such as the
M68000, it makes some sense to use the data register width as the bit
size of the "processor"; from that point of view the M68000 is a 32-bit
machine.