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Suppose a cpu has 16 data pins. How many operations will it take to read a 64 bit word.​

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You can address 2^16 words and each word is 8 bit (= 1 byte). Therefore it is 64 KB.

If the word size was 16 bit. The answer would be 128 KB.
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