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Re: Companies That Still Make 16-bit Games?
« on: March 25, 2012, 10:01:13 PM »
Quote from: james666;685324
The 68000 only has 16-bit bus so it was not generally considered a full 32-bit CPU back in the day.  The Atari ST's name alludes to this; it stands for Sixteen/Thirty-two (and perhaps also Sam Tramiel).  The TT had an 030 so was Thirty-two/Thirty-two.


The 68000 only has a 16 bit DATA bus. The address bus is 23 bits. The general purpose registers are 32 bits.

Data bus: 16 bits
Address bus: 23 bits
Address Register Size: 32 bits
Data Register size: 32 bits
Instruction size: variable (multiple of 16 bits)

As far as programming goes, it looks and acts like 32 bits. You are right that it is generally considered a 16/32 bit hybrid CPU.