[Scottish] processors

Gordon JC Pearce gordon at gjcp.net
Wed Nov 15 11:07:13 GMT 2006


Claudio Calvelli wrote:
>> Claudio-
>>
>> 	The 8088 was the 16 bit chip, indeed, but it had an 8 bit adress bus.
>>
>> The 8086 was superior to the '88 because it was a true 16bit cpu, 
>> incorporating a 16bit address bus. The 8087 complements it to provide real 
>> (floating point) calculations.
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant, more or less.
> 
>> I'm showing my love for all things old a bit, aren't I?
>>
>> http://www.aliross.co.uk/museum
> 
> Any use for a PDP-11/73? I haven't switched it on in years but it
> does work.
>

What's in it?

Gordon.



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