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.

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 ...

A quick look at the pinouts of an Intel 8086 & 8088 processor reveals a 20 bit address bus. There was high demand for the ability to address 1 meg (2^20) of address space, and Intel delivered.

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 ...