Computer collecting humor.

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_odin.phy.bris.ac.uk>
Date: Tue Nov 4 08:35:57 1997

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997 Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk wrote:
> The Intel 8088 was 8 bits, the 8086 16; the 80x87, as I recall, are 80
> bits internally (another one for your list, Tony, if coprocessors
> count!)

If coprocessors count, we can trivially get 64 bits (a lot of the old DEC
PDP11 coprocessors were that sort of size).

Of course instruction and data words don't have to be the same size. Some
of the PIC microcontrollers have 8bit data and 14 bit instructions

>
> I believe that there are some CPU chips now with 64-bit internal buses.
> Any advance on 64?

The HP saturn has 64 bit registers (and a 4 bit bus...)

>
> At the other end, do the processors in the AMT DAP count as 1-bit
> machines? Or are they bit-slices of a 32 bit machine? Or a 1024 bit
> machine?
Received on Tue Nov 04 1997 - 08:35:57 GMT