Hi, The question may seem trivial but I have a significant confusion in my mind becoz of the conflicting things I read.

We were tought that the microprocessor architecture is denoted as the "NUMBER OF DATA LINES"-bit architecture. For example --- becoz 8085 has 8 data lines it is 8 bit, 8086 has 16 so it is 16 bit etc. WHY THEN PENTIUM IS CALLED 32 BIT ARCHITECTURE EVEN IF IT HAS 64 DATA LINES??

Also Intel is tomtomming about their new 64-bit Itenium architecture. What is it that makes Itenium 64 bit??

Now for the software side. What is that that makes a FILE SYSTEM 32bits/64bits?? Can a 64 bit file system run on 32 bit machine??

===== rgds, Aditya N. ---------------------- Junior Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai, 400076.

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