I'm pretty sure if Motorola had rolled out the 68008 at the same time as the 68000 the 0x86 would be something few people remember. The hardware people choose t

I'm pretty sure if Motorola had rolled out the 68008 at the same time as the 68000 the 0x86 would be something few people remember. The hardware people choose the 8088 because it only required 8 DRAM's instead of 16.