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> 16-bit Commodore Amiga era The Motorola 68000 was a 32-bit processor. What Commodore Amiga was 16 bits?
by teo_zero 2mo ago
> 16-bit Commodore Amiga era
The Motorola 68000 was a 32-bit processor. What Commodore Amiga was 16 bits?
- georgemcbay 2mo ago> The Motorola 68000 was a 32-bit processor. ... but not entirely. The registers were 32-bit but the ALU and data bus were 16-bit. The 68020 was the first 68k chip that was 32-bit without having to qualify exceptions for different parts of the architecture.
- selcuka 2mo agoFair enough. As someone who was alive in the 80s, I remember first generation home computers (ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 etc) were (correctly) called 8-bit, and the second gen (Amiga, Atari ST) were colloquially called 16-bit. The CPU was 32-bit but the earlier Amigas (A1000, A500) and STs had 16-bit data buses. That was probably why.