On Sep 12, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12 September 2016 at 03:43, Chris Hanson <cmhan...@eschatologist.net> > wrote: >> This person was talking about 680x0-based Macs being “16-bit.” Ugh. > > > Well, to be specific, the interviewee was talking about something that > is networking-specific on System 7.5, which implies pre-7.6 and thus > pre-Open Transport. IIRC 7.6 is also the first release that requires > 32-bit clean ROMs -- 7.5 and earlier didn't. > > So it sounds like a legitimate misunderstanding, probably via > over-zealous editing.
It was from a forum post, and the editors should have caught it. The existence of "32-bit clean" ROMs does not imply that the prior ROMs — or CPU architecture! — were 16-bit, or that operating systems that ran on them were. -- Chris
