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From: matthew@sunpix.East.Sun.COM ( Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Nintendo
Message-ID: <1148@greens.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 17 Feb 90 18:19:20 GMT
References: <1497@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Research Triangle Park, NC
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In article <1497@crash.cts.com> gsnow@pro-freedom.cts.com (Gary Snow) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from cyliao@eng.umd.edu
>In article <1459@crash.cts.com> gsnow@pro-freedom.cts.com (Gary Snow) writes:
>>>In-Reply-To: message from yu-r@yacht.cis.ohio-state.edu

          [garbage about what 8/16 and 16/32 means - deleted]

    When someone says that thier processor is an 8/16 or a 16/32, what they
are talking about is the data bus size to the accumulator size.  The
6502 and 65C02 are 8/8's.  The 65802, 65816, (in native mode) and 8088 are
8/16's.  The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32 since it has an 16 bit data bus and
32 bit internal accumulators.


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