Re: significance of bits

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arun Sharma proclaimed:
> In contemporary microprocessor architecture, the bitness of a CPU is
> defined by the number of bits in the virtual address i.e. ability to
> address a large amount of memory in one process/address space.

I thought that the bitness of a processor was the size of the registers in
the processor or the width of the data bus.  At least that is what I
remember (I might be wrong) the Goankar microprocessor text book as saying.

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