Well I mean it fits in with the 8-bit era machines as far as performance but that CPU was absolutely 16 bit.

16-bit registers, operations, etc. yeah. A bigger machine of the TM9 series would be more like a PDP-11.

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		In fact it was a miniaturized TI-990 minicomputer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-990