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echo: classic_computer
to: Dan Ceppa
from: Andrew Ball
date: 2005-02-12 23:18:40
subject: Hardware MB question

Hello Dan,

  DC> No, if I got it right, they had only 1/2 of the
    > "words" available to them.

Are you thinking of the Intel 4004 microprocessor?  I once saw a 16-bit
minicomputer that had four of those working in tandem.

- Andy Ball

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