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
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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.

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J. M. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA            ...!att!mhuxu!jmj