Amiga - a 16bit or 32bit machine?

[stefcep2]

Whilst the ALU is 16 bits, I think there was a lot more to making a 32-bit register/instruction set model than "icing". Making the internal register model 32-bits wide was a mark of serious forward planning. Compare the 68000 to the 8086 design. After all, they'd gone for a separate data and address register model, they could easily have made d0-d7 16-bits wide and a0-a7 24-bits. It would have been cheaper and quicker to market.

  Ok so what made the TI99/4A the first 16 bit micro?

[stefcep2]

Dunno. You'll have to ask whoever said it was

thats what i was told when i bought one, over the 8-bit C64.  I think it was the CPU that was 16 bit