Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 02:16:17 07/06/03
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On July 06, 2003 at 00:08:38, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 I am sure that not being able to patent or copyright counting systems or trademark numbers was just an oversight, no doubt to be corrected soon ;-) Just think of all those licence fees.......... Frank
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