As for microprocessors, there are MANY MANY micros that preceded the PC.
You can find a list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor_chronology The 8088 is a late comer to the microprocessor world. On 11/16/2021 4:08 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Did the 4004 chip start our interest in microcomputing? It is 50 today. Classic computing begins earlier but for the masses, if they could be called that in the early seventies, this was it. I hesitate in calling it the first microprocessor as pc'ers will object. Happy computing all. Murray 🙂
