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dspillett 5 days ago

I'm not aware of that one off the top of my head. If it naturally operated over 16-bit values internally (i.e. it had 16-bit registers and a primarily 16-bit¹ instruction set), at least as fast as it could work with smaller units, then probably yes.

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[1] So not a mostly 8-bit architecture with 16-bit add-ons. The 8086 had a few instructions that could touch 32 bits, multiply being able to give a 32-bit output from two 16-bit inputs for instance (though the output was always to a particular pair of its registers), but a few special cases like that doesn't count so it is definitely 16-bit.