@poundquerydotinfo I always thought about it this way:
The "bit number" is the size of the primary accumulator, be it A in 6502 and Z80, D0 in 68000 or AX/EAX in x86.
By this definition Z80 and 6502 are both 8bit, and 8086/286 is 16bit and 68000/386 is 23bit, which, I guess checks out.
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