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From: garyt@ios.Convergent.COM (Gary Tse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die?
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Date: 3 Dec 90 18:14:20 GMT
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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.

Look, the 4004 isn't dead yet.  I'd imagine the 8088 will die some 
years after the 4004 dies.

Besides, the 8088 should have a decent future as a cheap embedded
controller.  For peanuts you can buy an 8088 motherboard to base
your design upon.  

-- 
Gary Tse,    garyt@ios.Convergent.COM || ..!pyramid!ctnews!ios!garyt
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               "What can you say about a society that says God is 
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