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- From: bennett@erich.triumf.ca (P.Bennett)
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- Subject: Re: 16bit vs. 32bit
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 21:36 PST
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- In article <4iunpm$c0n@crl.crl.com>, bobfry@crl.com (Robert Fry) writes...
- >bgc@alpha.netam.net (The Bowling Green Connection) writes:
- >
- >>Could someone explain, technically, what 16bit and 32bit refers to?
- >>Is there a FAQ somewhere about it I could read?
- >
- >These are topics related to the Intel CPUs. You might get more
-
- No. They are related to _all_ CPUs.
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- They refer to the "natural" size of data that the processor handles -
- generally, the width of the accumulator and other processor registers, and of
- the data bus.
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- There is some "fuzziness" in the definition with some processors. For example,
- the 8088 used in the original IBM PC had 16 bit registers but an 8 bit data
- bus, but (I think) would be considered "16 bit"
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