> Wow, I never knew any of that.
> So, can you still buy 8088s? And, if so, what can they do. Do you need
> EPROMS for memory? Can they be used in the same way as a PIC can?

        Are they still being produced? No I don't think so. But they are like any
other Intel CPU, they require a ton of support components and cannot be used
like PICs which are generally self contained units. TTYL

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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Olin Lathrop
> Sent: 21 April 2001 14:15
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: Voice synthesis
>
>
> > Sorry for being REALLY dumb, but whats an 8088?
>
> It's an 8 bit bus version of the 8086, which was one of the first
> commercially available 16 bit microprocessors.  The 8086 was the 8080
> architecture extended to 16 bits wide, which was the 4040 architecture
> extended to 8 bits wide.  The 4040 was an enhanced version of the
> 4004, the
> world's first microprocessor.
>
> The 8086/8088 is also the direct ancestor of today's Pentium line.  After
> the 8086, Intel named these processors the 80x86, with the X incremented
> each new generation.  The 32 bit architecture required by today's
> operating
> systems like Windows NT appeared first on the 80386.  When Intel
> got to the
> 80586 they found some weeny had deliberately trademarked that
> name just for
> that purpose.  Instead of paying off the weeny, Intel renamed the 80586 to
> the Pentium.  Newer generations are currently named with a roman numeral
> following the Pentium name.  The Pentium-III is therefore what would have
> otherwise been the 80786 had the original naming scheme been preserved.
>
> I may have a few model number details garbled, but that is generally the
> gist of it.
>
>
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