On 9/12/16 3:42 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
On Sep 12, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 September 2016 at 03:43, Chris Hanson <cmhan...@eschatologist.net> wrote:
This person was talking about 680x0-based Macs being “16-bit.” Ugh.
Well, to be specific, the interviewee was talking about something that
is networking-specific on System 7.5, which implies pre-7.6 and thus
pre-Open Transport. IIRC 7.6 is also the first release that requires
32-bit clean ROMs -- 7.5 and earlier didn't.
So it sounds like a legitimate misunderstanding, probably via
over-zealous editing.
It was from a forum post, and the editors should have caught it. The existence of
"32-bit clean" ROMs does not imply that the prior ROMs — or CPU architecture! —
were 16-bit, or that operating systems that ran on them were.
Particularly when the issue was 24-bit vs 32-bit.
