On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> On Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:45 PM, Louis P. Santillan
>[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> : I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again???
> :
> You've been drinking *way* too much Dr Pepper.
>
> <8bitprocessors>: 8080 -> 8085 -> z80
> <16bitprocessors>: 8088 -> 8086 -> 80186 -> etc
>
> each processor added a few instructions, with the exception of 8085, which
> I think just had onboard cpu support.
The 8088 and 8086 differ only in the width of the data bus. The 8088 has an
8-bit data bus, the 8086 has a 16-bit bus, making it a bit faster. (It still
runs like treacle though)
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