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From: wallyk@bicycle.WV.TEK.COM (Wally Kramer)
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Subject: Re: 8088 vs 8086
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Date: 21 Jun 91 23:43:12 GMT
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sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu writes:

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> Intel 80186: 8086 equivalent of 80188
...

More like an 8086 with a couple of extra instructions (which were supposed
to work in the 8086), plus a lot of additional on-chip hardware:  2 (4?)
DMA controller channels, some programmable timers, and dynamic RAM support.
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