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On, The System Really Isn’t 16-bit, Is It? There have been arguments that the TurboGrafx-16 really wasn’t 16-bit because it’s CPUs were 8-bit, which is true. It wasn’t really 16-bit. It wasn’t really 8-bit either. It’s unique use of these CPU chips made memory usage more efficient. Basically, 1 megabit of TurboGrafx-16 RAM is equivalent to 2 megabits in the SNES or Genesis because the CPUs are 16-bit, and therefore the 8-bit word size is smaller for the TG16. Suddenly claiming a 16-bit CPU poses a disadvantage. A wonderful article expanding on this argument, authored by Robodork, can be found here. Authored by Odonadon (c) 2003 Turbo2k |
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