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- From: grier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier)
- Subject: Re: Falcon '030 BUS: 16 or 32 bit?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.173837.26912@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell Northern Research
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:38:37 GMT
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- > But how can this be? The 68030 has a 32bit data bus or are Atari using an
- > adapted version?
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- > Ta!
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- The 68030 has a flexible bus architecture. It can happily live on
- an 8 bit, 16 bit or 32 bit bus.
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- The 68040 requires a 32 bit bus, unless the design team wants to add
- a lot of hardware to do it. :^(
-
- Brian, WS1S
- Bell Northern Research
- Research Triangle Park, NC
- bjgrier@bnr.ca
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