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Intel's first blockbuster chip was the 8088 – and it changed everything 45 years ago
The Intel 8088 Micro-processor ran at 5MHz ... Elsewhere, the key innovation in the 8088 versus the 8086 was the use of a full 16-bit internal architecture but mated with an 8-bit data bus.
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The Intel 8088 And 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry
The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086 ... as well as a few differences that are mostly due to the 8088’s cut-down 8-bit data bus. While the 8086 has 3 16-bit slots in the instruction ...
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Intel 8086
The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086 ... as well as a few differences that are mostly due to the 8088’s cut-down 8-bit data bus. While the 8086 has 3 16-bit slots in the instruction ...
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PC CPU models
See 286. The original PC launched by IBM in 1981 used Intel's 16-bit 8088 CPU. This chip family was designed so that the installed base of CP/M applications could be easily ported to the new ...