From: broehl@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Bernie Roehl)
Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: Atari, IBM team to produce Jaguar 64-bit multimedia syste
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 09:26:21 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo



In article <20tfkd$qhg@news.u.washington.edu> kahn@CSLI.Stanford.EDU
(Ken Kahn) writes:

>I recently quizzed someone from Atari at a conference about the Jaguar
>and he said it had a 68030 in it and 2 DSP chips
>Maybe I'm just ignorant but how could this be a "64-bit" system?

Let's see... the 68030 is a 32-bit processor, so if each DSP is a
16-bit processor, the marketing people probably did 32+16+16 = 64.

Seriously, I wouldn't put it past them.

	Bernie Roehl
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