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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die?
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.194533.12250@uwasa.fi>
Date: 2 Dec 90 19:45:33 GMT
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In article <1990Dec2.151600.12415@d.cs.okstate.edu> ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes:
>From article <90335.202651F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>, by F0O@psuvm.psu.edu:
>> 
>>     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
:
>
>Isn't the 8088 dead already?  I mean, no one with much knowledge of PC will
>buy an 8088 system since the motherboard of 286 is now less than $100 (8088
:

Aren't we missing the point here? It is not the 8088 (or 8086)
processor in itself that counts, but the trivial fact that
practically millions of MsDos applications are based on 8088
instructions set whatever 80x86 processor is under the hood. 

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