Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!mhuxu!jmj From: jmj@mhuxu.UUCP (J. M. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Processors Message-ID: <8796@mhuxu.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 20:00:20 GMT References: <8812051327.AA03000@wpiee.local> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 12 In article <8812051327.AA03000@wpiee.local>, TMURPHY@WPI.BITNET writes: = IBM uses the 8086 family, not the 8080. Big difference, the 8080 is a fairly = primitive 8-bit processor, the 8086 family are all at least 16-bits internally = (The 8088 is 8-bits externally). The 8086 is an 8 bit processor inside and out. The 8088 has a 16 bit internal data bus, but only an 8 bit external bus connection. -- Life's just a game, you fly a paper plane, there is no end. - TBA J. M. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA ...!att!mhuxu!jmj