Re: The Apple II is crap

[hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins)]

In article <20030815193040437+1200@news.inv.ihug.co.nz>,
Roger Johnstone  <rojaws@ihug.co.nz> wrote:


>I remember some people calling them 12-bit CPUs, since they were 'half 
>way' between an 8-bit and a 16-bit :o) I've never considered them to be 
>a 8-bit CPU, since from a programmer's perspective there is zero 
>difference between the 8088 and 8086 except for the performance. Indeed, 
>what does the width of the external memory bus matter? If a CPU used a 
>serial bus no one would consider it a '1-bit processor'. 

There have been machines that implemented multibit cpus with a 1 bit
unit that serially worked it's way through the word.  I believe some of
the 12 bit PDP-8's did this.

hawk
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