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Article #7243Re: 8088 vs 8086
From: Pete Holsberg
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 17:32
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 17:32
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In article <1991Jun21.030948.10951@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: = =Could somebody please tell me the difference between the 8088 and the 8086 =processors..? = =Obviously, both are 16bit processors, but is the width of the data bus the =only difference between them...? For all practical purposes, yes. I think that there's slightly different instruction fetch queue, but neither a user nor a programmer would be aware of it. = =Which was developed first, and why is it that the 386 and 486 chips create =virtual 8086s instead of virtual 8088s...? 8086 was first. Because the 8086 was first. ;-) Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math FAX: 609-586-6944 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu TCF 92 - April ??-??, 1992
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: 8088 vs 8086 Message-ID: <1991Jun21.173218.1912@mccc.edu> Date: 21 Jun 91 17:32:18 GMT References: <1991Jun21.030948.10951@cs.mcgill.ca> Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One Lines: 23