There is a book written by Robert Grossblatt titled "The 8088 Project
Book". It steps you through construction of an 8088 based system. It may be
worthwhile getting your hands on it. The ISBN is 0-8306-3171-2, it sold for
$19.95. Well worth it.

JJW
SEI/CMU

At 12:42 PM 4/23/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am very interested how to build a minimal 8088 system, so could you tell
>us please what another chips are needed. I think of a minimal system with
>SRAM and EEPROM, USART. What do I need yet?
>
>Thank you.
>Imre
>
>
>On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Dale Botkin wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Chris Pringle wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Yes, 8088's are still available.
> >
> > They can do anything an 8086 can do...  which is to say, most of what a
> > Pentium-III can do, but without the memory management (and way slower).
> > 1MB physical address limit, segmented into 64K banks.  The chip is a CPU,
> > not an MPU, and has no internal ROM, EPROM, RAM, peripheral functions, or
> > anything other than the processor itself.  So no, you ca't use it as a
> > single-chip embedded processor, but I've seen designs with as few as 3
> > 40-pin packages.  It's more suited to larger and more complex embedded
> > tasks or general-purpose computers -- the IBM PC & XT used the 8088, as
> > did many other systems.
> >
> > Dale
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