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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (446515)	1/10/2009 2:57:12 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574692

"and then the first 16 bit chip, the 8086." It wasn't the first 16 bit chip. National Semiconductor has that honor. fact-archive.com The 8086 preceded the 8088 slightly. Cutting the databus to 8 bits meant the 8080A support chips could more easily be used. Which is what IBM did. But, please do not restart that old argument on what determines the "bitness" of a processor. It is about as pointless as those arguments about who would win, The Enterprise or an Empire star cruiser. And just about as timely. The answer to the latter is that Darth Vader would ask Picard to drop his shields so they could negotiate. When Picard complies, Vader would blast him out of the universe...