Re: The Apple II is crap

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

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In article <3F3C4F33.8020700@noneofyourbusiness.com>,
Exegete  <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>> 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.
>
>You're right about the 386Sx, butI'm nto so sure about the 486SLC. My 
>memory isn't too clear, but I thought the 486SLC was merely an enhanced 
>386DX.

Nope...I had one a few years back, and it was pin-compatible (more or less)
with the 386SX (and had the same 16-meg memory limit as the 386SX as a
result).  There was also a 486DLC that had the same kind of compatibility
with the 386DX.

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