[rescue] Another fine business decision for us axp-lovers

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jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>I hate it when they call a 32bit chip 64bit just because it sits on a
>64bit bus.  It is almost as bad as calling a 32bit machine a 64bit machine
>just because it has a 64bit video chip.

Yeah.

The only chip I can think of that has ambiguous size is the original
MC68000.

In machine language, it looks like a 32-bit processor.

It is implimented with microcode on 16-bit hardware.

So - for software compatibility & upgrade considerations, it's a
32-bit CPU. For performance considerations, it's 16.

(I personally just think of it as 32-bit, but some people seem
to disagree with this. Primarily over first-32-bit-uproc bragging
rights, I think.)

-- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --