[geeks] The topic for the day..

[James Fogg]

> > Discuss.
>
> I'm going to guess that it either has to do with workstations, PCs,
and
> Macs using byte addressing instead of word addressing.  But that is
just
> a guess since I don't know what addressing model was used on machines
> that refer to memory size as megawords.


Isn't word length (and subsequent memory footprint) determined by CPU
architecture (8,16,32,64,21,13 bits) and not memory?

If so, 2 1MX8 memory modules would give me 2Mword in an 8 bit machine
and 1Mword in a 16 bit machine.