Code Generation (register byte,

[Robert Skinner]

> 
> /* 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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