>> >The first 32bit intel processor was introduced around '88 -89'.
>> >the 486.
>>
>> Actually the 386 was fully 32-bit. The 286 was partly 32-bit.
>
>The 386 (released in '86? Or was it '84?) was 32 bit. The 386sx (386
>sucks) had a 32 bit internal path and a 16 bit external.
I believe it was 86. I got my first 386DX system in 87.
>The 286 had an odd 24 bit bus...odd that. I believe it was still 16 bit
>externally though.
The 286 had a 24 bit address bus but a 16 bit data bus. Nothing about the 286
was 32bit.
For that matter the 8086 had a 20 bit address bus with a 16 bit data bus, and
the 8088 used 20 bit addresses with 8 bit data externally even though it was
still a 16 bit internal architecture.
-jrp
