Re: The Apple II is crap

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <GrF_a.10410$v9.2936@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
M. Pender <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:B5gosYDcmVO$EwmO@dmc12.demon.co.uk...
>> The only computer company to successfully make the transition from their
>> 8-bit lines to their 16/32-bit lines, with any degree of compatibility
>> /at all/ was Acorn. And even then it was pretty kludged.
>
>*ahem* and of course the IBM PC

The IBM PC was never an 8-bit machine.  It had an 8-bit expansion bus, but
the 8088 was a 16-bit processor with an 8-bit data bus (like the 65816).
Later processors with a bus width less than the machine word size were the
386SX and 486SLC, which were 32-bit processors with 16-bit data buses.

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