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- From: dross@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Classic II databus
- Keywords: 32-bit
- Message-ID: <dross.726854534@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:02:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan12.123659.24096@kub.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
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- In <1993Jan12.123659.24096@kub.nl> stephan@kub.nl (Stephan Raaijmakers) writes:
-
- >I just bought a Classic II; the accompanying
- >documentation says that the machine has
- >a 32-bit databus; now and again I saw postings
- >to this group mentioning a 16-bit bus.
- >
- >Can someone shed some light on this?
-
- I don't have the little Classic II-specific booklet that Apple shipped
- with mine right handy, but I think these are the details from it:
-
- - 68030 CPU has 32-bit datapath internally
- - machine has 32-bit datapath to ROM
- - machine has 16-bit datapath to RAM
-
- I don't know if the 32-bit datapath to ROM includes the on-board
- "ROM/FPU connector" to which a 68882 FPU (on a special little board) can
- be connected. (Yes, it can take an FPU; my Classic II has one and
- Gestalt knows it's there and SANE and Excel use it.)
-
- In terms of the machine's "bus", I guess it's different widths
- in different places: 32 bits wide exiting the CPU (since it's
- a plain ol' 68030, unlike the Intel 80386 vs. 80386SX) and accessing
- the ROM, but cut-down to 16 after the addressing hardware
- which goes to the RAM.
-
- Any hardware engineers willing to elucidate?
-
- Dan
-