Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!killer!jockc From: jockc@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Jock Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Processors Summary: slip of the tongue? Message-ID: <6341@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 6 Dec 88 20:00:44 GMT References: <8812051327.AA03000@wpiee.local> <8796@mhuxu.UUCP> Reply-To: jockc@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Jock Cooper) Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx Lines: 12 In article <8796@mhuxu.UUCP> jmj@mhuxu.UUCP (J. M. Johnson) writes: >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. > Perhaps you meant to say "8080 is an 8 bit processor inside and out". The 8086 is 16 bits in and out, and the 8088 is, as you said, 16 bits inside, 8 bits (data) out.