newbie post: 16 bit?

As i understood it, the Neo Geo family of systems are 24 bit. As in the MVS and the AES, i am not sure about the cd systems. Can any one explain to me why you refer to them as 16 bit systems? Is the a techinicality, like the 32x not being a true 32 bit system or what?

Neo is a bi-processor system as you said and IMO it's not 24-bit.

Is a bi-processor Athlon 1GHz faster than an Athlon 2000XP+ ? I dunno...

its not 24 bit , thats marketing

its a 16bit motorola 68000 and a zilog z80A 8bit

32x is actually two 32bit processors running together, like saturn. that would make them 64 <img src="graemlins/tickled.gif" border="0" alt="[Tickled]" /> but its not true.

its just like tg16, is really 8 bit. it just has 2 8 bit procesors so they call it 16bit.

its all marketing really, but noticed how they stoped marketing bits after n64. because consoles became more component based. like dreamcast is a 128bit processor and a 64bitprocessor (or something) and xbox is really only 32bit (its an intel processor)

it just goes to show you that 'bits' dont matter, they just define an age nowadays.

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the dreamcast CPU is a hitachi SH-4 RISC 200mhz 32bit, a successor to the winCE based SH3 palmtops. With the SH4 Floating point performance is comparable to a Pentium 3 1ghz, integer performance isnt too hot.

While sega states the SH4 is 128bit, this simply refers to the 128bit-wide FPU registers used for matrix-math computation (3d)

the SH4 is 32bit.

Nope I thought TG-16 had a 16 bit sound processor but an 8 bit core processor.