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8086, 80286, 680[01]0 all had a 16-bit word size and could only access RAM at 16-bit granularity (I/O is a different story). Of course they had the ability to e
by vardump 2y ago
8086, 80286, 680[01]0 all had a 16-bit word size and could only access RAM at 16-bit granularity (I/O is a different story). Of course they had the ability to extract just a byte as well.
68000 generates a bus error if you try unaligned 16/32-bit access.
- PaulHoule 2y agoBut you could have had a system with 64k 16-bit words that gives 128k bytes.