On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Jason Willgruber wrote:
> If Intel's 8088 was stripped of half it's bus width, why was it used so much
> more than the 8086? One of the few computers that I've seen with an 8086 is
> the WANG WLTC (in the SCSI drive string). With being only 4 MHz (I think),
> it way out-performs my 8088 8MHz Zenith (I just wish it wasn't so dang big).
> I remember someone on here saying that an 8086 and 8088 were
> interchangeable. Is this true, and would there be an advantage?
When IBM ELS were designing the original 5150, 16-bit cards would have driven
the cost out of their US$4,000.00 retail target range, so they went with the
crippled 8088. A decision that, in hindsight, makes about as much sense as
including a cassette drive and (what was it???) 16K RAM on the first model.
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Received on Sun Dec 27 1998 - 16:49:42 GMT