Computer emulation has been improved as well. The Victor 9000, an Intel 8088-based PC from the early 1980s, received ...

16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski Today I learned that Charles Bukowski, “laureate of American lowlife”, wrote about the incompatibilities of early computing platforms in a poem called 16-bit ...

The 8088 processor, meanwhile, was a low-cost variant of the 8086 processor; up to that point most new processors came with their own instruction set, but the 8088 and 8086 used the same instruction ...

1981 - Intel's 8088 microprocessor, with 29,000 transistors, becomes the brain in the IBM Personal Computer, kicking off the era of personal computing.

1981 - Intel's 8088 microprocessor, with 29,000 transistors, becomes the brain in the IBM Personal Computer, kicking off the era of personal computing.

1981 - Intel's 8088 microprocessor, with 29,000 transistors, becomes the brain in the IBM Personal Computer, kicking off the era of personal computing.

The point is, Intel and AMD need to act as if there is a standard, so they may as well create one together or their biggest customers will just move even more aggressively to Arm or start looking at ...

8-bit micros may not be the darling they once were, but they're still being used today.

When we talked about the Book 8088, most of our discussion revolved around a single PC: the 1981 IBM PC 5150, the original machine from which a wave of "IBM compatibles" and the modern PC industry ...

Intel’s first significant CPU based in x86 turns 45 today. The 8088 Microprocessor was launched in 1979 and was Intel's first significant CPU, to bring its x86 architecture into prominence.