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Subject: When will the 8088 die?
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Date: 2 Dec 90 01:26:51 GMT
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    I've been wondering since the 486 chips are out now, when is intel and
others going to stop making the 8088?  The 286 is much better then the 8088
and for all the more a 286 is in price, I would have thought the 8088 would
be dead by now.
    I also hope that when Intel designs the 686 chip, it will be backward
compatible to the 286, not the 8088(the 586 will be backward compatible to
the 8088).  I'm not sure how easy this would be to do, since the 286
instruction set is a superset of the 8088, but I do think the 286 should be
the base for the 686 and up.
    The 8088 has to be put to pasture sometime...

                                                              [Tim]