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Post #38 by porter
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryDevelopment
Post DateFri, 21 Aug 2009 - 00:57
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/unix-for-8-bit-apple.17548/
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The PDP-7 was an 18-bit machine.
No, it was 16bit but could address 256Mb of memory with 18 address lines. A 6502 has 16 address lines but that doesn't make it a 16bit computer. If you went by that argument an 8086 was a 19bit computer and an 8088 was a 20bit computer.

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