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that was an 8088, which of course had the same core as the 8086, but 8 bit data paths to get on/off chip to save system costs at the cost of some speed.
by fsckboy 6y ago
that was an 8088, which of course had the same core as the 8086, but 8 bit data paths to get on/off chip to save system costs at the cost of some speed.
- dt3ft 6y agoThanks, this could be it. The clock frequency was mighty 4.77 MHz and boy was it fast when you typed "DIR" :)
- robin_reala 6y agoAh good, it wasn’t just me that measured the increase in performance of 286 -> 386 -> 486 with DIR then!