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Re: Amiga - a 16bit or 32bit machine?
« on: June 24, 2009, 05:59:00 PM »
Quote from: Karlos;513157
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Falcon

A 16-bit address bus would be pretty poor show. That would be in the same league as the ZXSpectrum and C64 ;)


Still, in practice it had higher bandwidth to ST-RAM (the equivalent of chipram) than the 1200. So bus width isn't all, at least not when caches are involved.