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Re: Macintosh LC...need info on this =) TIA




Paul Schlyter wrote:

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> And then we had the 68008 with an 8-bit externam data bus, which thus
> was an 8/32 bit chip.

True.

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> And if you added an 8087 to your 8088, you got 80-bit internal registers
> for your floating-point computations, making your 8088+8087 an 8/80-bit
> chip combo!

LOL, ok, but usually the convention of the day referred to the CPU, not the
math co.

Roy

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