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Re: 64-bit computers?

Subject: Re: 64-bit computers?
From: eddy@cs.ucdavis.edu (arekusu)
Date: 1996/11/01
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: IIgs
References: <5557ss$c4c@news.ysu.edu> <bkrupp-3110961806350001@slip23.slip.siue.edu>

BKrupp (bkrupp@siue.edu) wrote:
: > Are there any 64-bit computers? Which??
:
: Power PC Macs are 64-bit computers. Mac/OS is a 32-bit operating system
: but the hardware is 64-bit.
: Now watch somebody come along and show me how stupid I am. :-)

Not to make you look stupid or anything ;) but,
according to motorola.com, everything but the 620 chips is a
"32-bit implementation" of the PPC RISC architecture. Why? I think
because only the FPU regs and bus are 64 bits wide, the int regs
are still 32 bit.

References:
- 64-bit computers?
  - From: be404@yfn.ysu.edu (Adalbert Goertz)
- Re: 64-bit computers?
  - From: bkrupp@siue.edu (BKrupp)

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