On June 1, 1979, Intel introduced the 4.77 MHz 8088 microprocessor, featuring 16-bit registers and, unlike its predecessor, the 16-bit 8086, had an 8-bit external data bus. With that, as well as ...

Seasonal Sales 'Totally wild': mini PC vendor delivers most powerful computer under $400 with savage 48% discount and it’s a great alternative to the Apple Mac mini CPU “We wanted to focus on those ...

The BOOK 8088 is one of the weirdest laptops to launch in 2023. It’s a budget mini-laptop with a 7 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard… and the guts of a 40-year old computer including a Intel 8088 ...

Intel’s first significant CPU based in x86 turns 45 today. The 8088 Microprocessor was launched in 1979 and was Intel's first significant CPU, to bring its x86 architecture into prominence. It was the ...

More than four decades after Intel launched the 8088 processor, a Chinese PC maker has launched a brand new mini-laptop sporting the 4.77 MHz processor, along with support for an optional 8087 math co ...

One of the big decisions IBM made in creating the original IBM PC was choosing to use the Intel 8088 processor as its central processing unit (CPU). This turned out to be hugely influential in ...

Intel’s 8086 16-bit microprocessor and its 8-bit sibling, the 8088, gave the personal computer market a tremendous boost when IBM adopted the 8088 in 1981 for the original IBM PC and used 8086-family ...

Title pretty much explains it. I have a somewhat unique opertunity to build a custom 8088 processor computer from a variety of old parts. It'a some guy going out of the computer dealer business. My ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

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