Re: [oc] New 64bit instructions for 32bit processor cores analogy

["Jim Dempsey" <dempsey@northnet.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johan Klockars" <rand@cd.chalmers.se>
To: <cores@opencores.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [oc] New 64bit instructions for 32bit processor cores analogy
> Also, the size of integer data a CPU can deal with has nothing to do
> with the size of its extern bus. The external bus could be a single
> bit wide and it wouldn't matter at all, as long as it was fast.
> 
The converse is true too. The PDP8-S had a 12-bit external bus
but a 1-bit adder. There are more recent examples of this too.

Jim Dempsey



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