From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:54:28 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Bryan Cantrill on bfs & ta In-Reply-To: References: <508087E8.7030309@gmail.com> <20121018234041.GB96785@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20121019205428.GD6410@mercury.ccil.org> Clem Cole scripsit: > the 68000 and 68010 were 16 bit internals. ie a 16 bit barrel shifter > and it took 2 ticks to perform 32 bit ops. a natural int was indeed > 16 bits in the base registers although they also could be used as > 32 bit registers (2 ticks ) so some 68k compilers defined int as 16 > others as 32 (more in a minute). it technically was LP32 not ILP32 Sounds like the 8088, which used an 8-bit bus but 16-bit registers and operations. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Sir, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many? --George Bernard Shaw, to a man booing at the opening of _Arms and the Man_