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jecelyesterday at 6:21 PM0 repliesview on HN

Actually, the 68000 had one full (all operations) 16 bit ALU and two more simple (add/subtract, so AU might be a better name) 16 bit ALUs so in the best case it could crunch 48 bits per clock cycle. The 8086 had one full 16 bit ALU and one simple 16 bit ALU (the ancestor of todays AGUs - address generator units).