Question

The word length in the 68000 computer is _______

(a) 32 bit

(b) 64 bit

(c) 16 bit

(d) 8 bit

I had been asked this question in a national level competition.

The doubt is from Motorola 680X0 Processor Architecture topic in chapter Processor Families of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Right choice is (c) 16 bit

The explanation is: The length of an instruction that can be read or accessed at a time is referred to as word length.