[Scott Dorsey]

anahata wrote:

What the marketing department want it to be, of corse, but...
To qualify as any sort of 64 bit processor, it should support the
AMD/Intel 64 bit instruction set (which is different from x86.)

Yes, but the Itanium is 64 bit, and it has a totally different instruction
set.

The NS32032 has double operations that will operate on 64-bit values,
but take two cycles for each memory access since the buss is only 32 bits
wide.

"True" 64 bit should mean that external data and address paths are 64
bits wide too. Ever since the 8088 in the original IBM PC, there have
been n bit CPUs squeezing their data through n/2 bit data paths, because
it saved lots of money and made a cheap upgrade path for an existing system.

Oh, it predates the 8088 by a long shot. The IBM 360/30 was an example,
I think, as was the horrible PDP-8e.
--scott
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