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The first personal computer to use the TMS9900 - the Marinchip 9900.[1] This dealt with the problem of using a 16-bit computer on an 8-bit bus by using external logic which turned one TMS9900 memory access into two bus accesses.

Everything ran much slower back then.

[1] http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/Marinchip/990...




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