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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
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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.