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- From: gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: SNES-CD: Very nagging problem/question...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.184011.2143@clark.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:40:11 GMT
- Article-I.D.: clark.1992Dec23.184011.2143
- References: <1992Dec19.192024.18210@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec21.222010.11769@clark.edu> <1992Dec23.022457.2684@kth.se>
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- In article <1992Dec23.022457.2684@kth.se> tomasa@dront.nada.kth.se (Tomas Arvidsson) writes:
- >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).
-
- Yeah, I relized that after I saved the message, I'm still living in the 32bit
- world of 030's and 040's.....its a hard habit to break...:-)
-
- Gary
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