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Fair enough. As someone who was alive in the 80s, I remember first generation home computers (ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 etc) were (correctly) called 8-bit, and the second gen (Amiga, Atari ST) were colloquially called 16-bit.

The CPU was 32-bit but the earlier Amigas (A1000, A500) and STs had 16-bit data buses. That was probably why.



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