At 10:17 AM 2/21/2008, Chuck Harris wrote... >Sorry, but that is not so. The 68000 was a 16 bit machine, both >internally, and externally, with 32 bit registers and some 32 bit >instructions.
Your Intel bias is really showing now. Enough with trying to change the subject. The discussion was in regard to architecture, not implementation. Your original claim was "It would have been impossible for intel to put a 32 bit bus and register set on a processor like the 8086 back in 1978." That was in support of Intel's segmented memory _architecture._ That claim is disproved by the fact that the 68000, which first shipped in 1979, had a 32 bit architecture. That the first implementation didn't bring everything at once is beside the point. The programming model was 32 bit, which very significantly distinguishes it from the 8086 architecture. Perhaps you want to call the 8088 an 8 bit processor? 8086: 16 bit registers, 16 bit data bus, 16 bit addressing with segmentation extensions. 8088: 16 bit registers, 16/8 bit data bus, 16 bit addressing with segmentation extensions. 68000: 32 bit registers, 32/16 bit data bus, 32/24 bit linear addressing. 68008: 32 bit registers, 32/8 bit data bus, 32/20-22 bit linear addressing. (architecture/physical implementation) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
