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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: 8088 vs 8086
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.173218.1912@mccc.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 17:32:18 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.030948.10951@cs.mcgill.ca>
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In article <1991Jun21.030948.10951@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
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=Could somebody please tell me the difference between the 8088 and the 8086
=processors..?
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=Obviously, both are 16bit processors, but is the width of the data bus the 
=only difference between them...?

For all practical purposes, yes.  I think that there's slightly
different instruction fetch queue, but neither a user nor a programmer
would be aware of it.
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=Which was developed first, and why is it that the 386 and 486 chips create 
=virtual 8086s instead of virtual 8088s...?

8086 was first.  Because the 8086 was first.  ;-)

Pete
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