Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!WPI.BITNET!TMURPHY From: TMURPHY@WPI.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Processors Message-ID: <8812051327.AA03000@wpiee.local> Date: 5 Dec 88 13:27:29 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 > using processors I have never heard of. Thus, one can not say that IBM uses > only 8080 microprocessors. Also, I don't think that 8088 and the 80286 are > completely the same chip. 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). Tom ________________________________________________________________ Thomas C. Murphy Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAD Lab Mechanical Engineering Dept. BITNET: TMURPHY@WPI Arpanet: tmurphy%wpi.bitnet@talcott.harvard.edu