This is classics of compare apples to carrot. In reality, most software that time created with C or hand crafted in asm, and effectively use much larger regist

This is classics of compare apples to carrot. In reality, most software that time created with C or hand crafted in asm, and effectively use much larger register file of 8088 and its really 16bit arithmetic. I remember, how much time people spent, to ensure maximum usage of registers, and avoid memory operations at all costs. Unfortunately, this also leads to decline of alternative technologies, like virtual machines, which that time was mostly stack machines, depend on memory speed. Sometimes I think it is this feature of the 8088 that creates the famous C power, and not something else. And I must admit, PC before approx 386, was extremely weak (slow and low colors) on graphics and nearly no sound, so looks like was not accidental, that on PC game culture was totally other than on 8-bits. Unfortunately, I was not in good position, to see difference myself, but my friends early see consoles and home computers, like MSX, and tell me about their much better graphics and sound. Sure I have not possibility to measure memory speed of consoles.