Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 21:08:38 07/05/03
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On July 04, 2003 at 04:53:56, Bo Persson wrote: >On July 03, 2003 at 20:25:18, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On July 03, 2003 at 19:18:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> > >>>>>Sorry, but the X86 _started_ as an 8-bit cpu capable of doing 16 bit math. >>>>>It grew to 16 bits in the 80286 and 32 bits in the 80386. But it was >>>>>originally an 8 bit ISA. >>>> >>>>Wrong, the 8086 (the first x86) is a 16-bit processor. The 8088 used in the >>>>original PC was a variant of the 8086 with an 8-bit data bus, maybe that's why >>>>you're confused. >>> >>>The _first_ was the 8080 and it was _not_ a 16 bit cpu. The 8086 was the >> >>Uhhhhhhhhhhh, Bob? Does it make a lot of sense to call the 8080 an "x86"? Hint: >>there's a reason why the 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486 are called "x86"s. >>Can you think of what that reason is? > >Seems like their names ends in "86"? How about Pentium? Pentium is what the 80586 was called when Intel discovered that it couldn't trademark a number. bruce
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