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===Bit count controversy=== Atari tried to downplay competing consoles by proclaiming the Jaguar was the only "64-bit" system; in its marketing in the American market the company used the tagline "''Do the math!"'', in reference to the 64 number.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://videogamecritic.com/jaguarinfo.htm | title=The Video Game Critic's Atari Jaguar System Review | access-date=May 22, 2023 | archive-date=May 15, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515202713/https://videogamecritic.com/jaguarinfo.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> This claim is questioned by some, because the [[Motorola 68000]] [[Central processing unit|CPU]] and the Tom and Jerry coprocessors execute 32-bit instruction sets. Atari's reasoning that the 32-bit Tom and Jerry chips work in tandem to add up to a 64-bit system was ridiculed in a mini-editorial by ''[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]'', which commented that "If Sega did the math for the [[Sega Saturn]] the way Atari did the math for their 64-bit Jaguar system, the Sega Saturn would be a 112-bit monster of a machine."<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Hot Number: 112|magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]|issue=71|publisher=Sendai Publishing|date=June 1995|page=30}}</ref> ''[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]'', in a mostly negative review of the Jaguar, maintained that it is a true 64-bit system, because the data path from the [[DRAM]] to the CPU and Tom and Jerry chips is 64 bits wide.<ref name="NGen12">{{cite magazine|title=Which Game System is the Best!?|magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=12|publisher=[[Imagine Media]]|date=December 1995|pages=36β85}}</ref>
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