Code Generation (register byte,
Robert Skinner
skinner at saber.UUCP
Sat Dec 14 04:16:24 AEST 1985
>
> /* 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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