okay new plan gonna make a line of CPUs where each CPU family has a totally random amount of bits and never tell anybody and it's like a mystery thing

sometimes it'll go up, sometimes down. *nods* there will be no rhyme or reason. I'll call it x69 architecture.

@Nine i mean it's already a poorly defined metric to begin with

some processors have more than one "bit number"

@Nine like the pic24 family has some instructions that operate on 8-bit words and separate instructions that operate on 16-bit words

@Felthry ..yoooooo that's...

heck that's wild. is it like with the TG16 console where it was '16 bit' in that it had a 16 bit main processor but 8 bit for sound?

@Nine no, this is just different operations the same processor can do

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@Nine the number of bits of a processor's data bus stopped being a useful metric a while ago

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