– “bits” as in 8-bit, 16-bit art and gaming systems
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Bits were a marketing scheme, they found something on the hardware that used the number of hits they wanted and said a machine was 8-bit, 16-bit, etc. This could be the size of a register in the CPU, the memory bus width, or anything else. Marketing teams wanted people to think this determined the power of a system, but it was completely meaningless. The Atari Jaguar and N64 were both called 64-bit machines, but they had very different graphical capabilities.
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