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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (100972)	3/17/2000 12:32:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, Re: Hint...the 8086 and 8088...one was 16 bit. That depends. some would say that 8088 was 16 bit too. Gary

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (100972)	3/17/2000 2:19:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hint...the 8086 and 8088...one was 16 bit. As Obi Wan Kenobi would say, "This is true, from a certain point of view." The 8086 and 8088 were both 16-bit processors internally (16-bit registers and operations), but the 8088 was built to interface with the (at the time) much cheaper and much more available 8-bit components that the rest of the machine would be built with. So, the 8086 was 16/16 and the 8088 was 8/16 (external/internal).