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From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue Nov 14 17:53:46 2000

>>Oh, there are a lot of them about. Of course it depends what you mean
by
>>'4 bit', but if that's the ALU/bus width, then the HP Saturn processor
(used
>>in the 71B, 28, 48, 49, etc, etc, etc) is a 4 bit chip. And I certainly
like
>>those machines (and yes, IMHO they are computers rather than
calculators).
>
>I have no idea what you're on about. =)
>Besides, a 4-bit address bus seems utterly, utterly limited.


For most of those the data path was 4bits the address path was often 12
or more bits.


Allison
Received on Tue Nov 14 2000 - 17:53:46 GMT