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Re:Building the Commodore computer that should have existed by cmrdporcupine on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:38PM (#17286523)
I never meant wider than 24 bits. I meant wider than the 16 bits on the 8-bit machines. Sorry if I was unclear. I didn't need a machine with more than 16MB until the mid 90s.
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Re:Building the Commodore computer that should have existed by mschaef on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:58PM (#17286703)
Agreed... 16-bit physical addressing was very limiting. (x86's 16-bit segment offsets were bad enough.)
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