I'm still not following. You seem to have said above that the 8086 was an iteration of the 8088, whereas Wikipedia claims that the 8088 is instead a variant of

I'm still not following. You seem to have said above that the 8086 was an iteration of the 8088, whereas Wikipedia claims that the 8088 is instead a variant of the 8086. It also says that the 8088 came out after the 8086. Can you restate and clarify your claim? A typo seems like the most likely explanation, but maybe I'm just misunderstanding.