>: Sorry for being REALLY dumb, but whats an 8088?

>Nah, you're just showing how young you are! :-) It's an *ancient* (pre-x86)
>Intel microprocessor. It was around when I was at DeVry/Columbus learning
>8085 assembler language in 1984.

Umm, its not pre x86 - if you want to be pedantic it is post x86 as it is
the 8 bit bus version of the 8086, which is the processor that was the first
in the x86 series. :)))

To the original questioner, it may be easier to think of it as the processor
in the original IBM PC. Any code written for it will run on a Pentium - with
some gotchas.

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