Imre,
There isn't much easyest to grab a small 8088 main board ?
Or you plan to built more than one piece...
If I'll search, I have somewhere a small one, for you.
Vasile


On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, dr. Imre Bartfai 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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