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Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die?
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Date: 2 Dec 90 17:38:36 GMT
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In article <90335.202651F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>, F0O@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>     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]
For someone who would want to buy a real cheap computer and does not care for
speed.  An acquaintance bought ten 8088s for networking purposes which would be
all linked to a single 80386.
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