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- From: tomasa@dront.nada.kth.se (Tomas Arvidsson)
- Subject: Re: SNES-CD: Very nagging problem/question...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.022457.2684@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1992Dec19.192024.18210@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec21.222010.11769@clark.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:24:57 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.222010.11769@clark.edu> gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec19.192024.18210@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
- >>
- >> Seems like a very pratical question. BTW, is the 68000 in the Genesis the
- >>same 68000 found in Macintoshes? And isn't the 68000 32bit? (oh no, not
- >>another bit war! :) THANKS!
- [...]
- >The 68000 is a 16/32 bit chip. 16bit data bus (the one that really matters),
- >and a 32bit address bus (the amount of memory it can address).
-
- Nah, the MC68000 is a 16/24/32 bit chip. That means it's got an 16-bit data
- bus and a 24 bit address bus which is handled internally as if it where 32
- bits. Thus the MC68K can "only" address 16MB of memory (there are, thank God,
- no segments in the MC68K and it's successors).
-
- >Gary Snow
- >uunet!clark!gsnow or gsnow@clark.edu
-
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- Tomas Arvidson ///
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