On Lisa The Tree Hugger and Some Guy's Comment in the capsule

Benjamin Robinson explores the frontier of nit-picking:  The numbering
of the
   GameStation is a bit odd.  Normally the number refers to the
generation of
   the unit (e.g. "PlayStation 2" is the second-generation PlayStation),
or
   the bit-width of the processor (e.g. "Nintendo 64" uses a 64-bit
   processor).  Unless they started making GameStations in the Colonial
era,
   we aren't on the 256th generation today.  On the other hand
bit-widths
   normally comes in powers of two, so the expected predecessor to 256
(2^8)
   is 128 (2^7), not 252.  Yeah, yeah, it's just a cartoon

Well, apparently, a new Game Station is released once every week.

I think it's to do with the "k"s in it, eg. the Gamestation 256 is "Less that a dollar a k!"

Count Bazzu

Don't forget that you can add processors to get a total, ie the Neo Geo is usually counted as a "24 bit" system because it has a 16-bit and additional 8-bit processor... so:

128-bit + 64-bit + 32-bit + 16-bit + 8-bit + 4-bit = 252-bit! Now that's a lot of processors!

"Count Bazzu" wrote in message news:[email]...

that a

Bazilla.

Well, that's very interesting. Adding up powers of two. I wonder if there's a Gamestation 254.

The Webmiester wrote:

...and a 255.

"Yama" wrote in message news:[email]...

is

additional

a

"Less

Bit-widths aren't always a power of two, though. The Mattel Intellevision used a GI1600 processor, which was a mix of 10-bit and 16-bit. The RAM was 16-bit, as was the registers, but the ROM was 10-bit, and the instructions were all 10-bit. (10 bits were called a decle, and 5 bits were called a nickle).

--Tim Smith

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