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- From: mash@mash.engr.sgi.com (John R. Mashey)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.programming,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Why are 32 bit better than 16 bit pgms?
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 07:52:15 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4feuff$5ik@murrow.corp.sgi.com>
- References: <4er4m4$78q@news1.ucsd.edu> <1996Feb5.163838.24531@amc.com> <1996Feb6.135808.12257@friend.kastle.com> <4f9e3p$alp@murrow.corp.sgi.com> <1996Feb8.181534.4170@friend.kastle.com>
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- In article <1996Feb8.181534.4170@friend.kastle.com>, rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
-
- |>
- |> Oh, I read these newsgroups all the time. I think you just don't want
- |> to hear me to say that I don't think it's all that important that the
- |> R4000/8000/10000 are "64-bit" architectures. :-)
- That's it's own topic and can be debated if you like ... but it
- certainly wasn't the topic posted.
-
-
- |> >1) This term has had a long and consistent history of use, with only
- |> >occasional excursions into marketing aberration (i.e., like calling
- |> >the i860 a 64-bit processor).
- |>
- |> Since there are "occasional excursions" by marketers, I believe it's
- |> not all that well defined.
- Everyone is entitled to their own opinion ... but personally, when it
- comes to computer architecture, I'd rather follow the opinions of
- computer architects, not of marketeers.
-
- |> BTW I do remember the i860 (64 bit bus, 32 bit otherwise). I remember
- |> flame war a'plenty about calling the 8088 an 8 bit vs 16 bit CPU, the
- |> 68000 a 16 bit vs 32 bit CPU, the 80386SX a 16 bit vs 32 bit CPU, the
- |> Pentium a 32 bit vs 64 bit CPU. I recall discussions on whether it's
- |> useful to consider the Alpha AXP a 64 bit CPU when you're running
- |> Windows NT, and the same for the MIPS R4000 for that matter.
-
- Each to their own opinions ... given a choice between:
- (a) Flame wars on the net.
- and
- (b) Common usage amongst real CPU designers.
-
- For some reason, I prefer (b) ...but each to their own.
-
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