Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General

[Jim Popovitch <jimpop@xxxxxxxxx>]

Believe it or not, the 8086 (predecessor to the 8088, but much faster)
was still used extensively in appliances and micro controllers (x10,
VCRs, etc) up until a few years ago.  AFAIK, MASM (the Microsoft Macro
Assembler) is still to this day being released with support for 808x
chips.

  Feel like reminising? Here's a webpage with the 8088 instruction set:
      http://www.quantasm.com/opcode_i.html

  How about the IBM 808x XT Computer Web:
      http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/copland/363/8086.htm

-Jim P.

--- Robert Dayton <pudgybuddha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ah, the 8088. Those WERE the days. I miss the way we had to think to
> program
> on them. I miss it bad.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General
> 
> 
> > When I was in college in 1988 I had an 8088 that was the workhorse
> for
> > the entire floor, because it was faster than the library's
> computers
> > (now if that ain't sad) with its little 9-pin printer. Everything
> was
> > in DOS and I even had WordPerfect on there - LOVED that program
> back
> > then. It had a 200MB hdd that I had compressed 400MB of data onto
> and
> > it still ran like a charm.
> >
> > I still remember seeing a 3.5" disk for the first time and thinking
> it
> > was so small, hard, and UGLY - and the guy who had them (in
> > multicolors, no less) kept calling them "hard disks" and I kept
> > arguing "No, the 'hard disk' is what's in your computer, not your
> > pocket!"
> > When he switched to calling them "floppies" I got even more
> flustered
> > and said "A 5.25 is a floppy! How can you call that thing a
> floppy??
> > It doesn't bend!"
> > Even more frustrating was the fact that you couldn't record data on
> > both sides - what a waste! If it could hold 1.4 MB, then using both
> > sides it could hold nearly 3! So why didn't it do that?!?  *grin*
> >
> > Fast forward to December of '96, when I saw an autoresponder at
> work
> > for the first time and thought it was the coolest thing since
> sliced
> > bread - I was at the Wizards of the Coast website, looking for
> updated
> > tourney rules for Magic the Gathering - got them all by
> autoresponder
> > and was so fascinated with it that I spent the next hour sending
> > emails to every autoresponder WotC had set up just to see what I'd
> get
> > back! Pretty sad.
> >
> > Walking through the computer shows comparing prices on 72-pin SIMMS
> > and thinking they were SO expensive; the thought of a 2gig hard
> drive
> > made me drool... 2gigs!! Wow - I'd *never* fill that up!! LOL
> >
> > My MIL talks of how she used to feed the punch-cards to the
> computers
> > where she worked, huge things that took up the entire room. I
> thought
> > that was pretty ancient, until I mentioned in chat one day how my
> 8088
> > still worked great and a 22-yr old friend from Canada was astounded
> -
> > they had pictures of those in his high-school textbooks(!!) and he
> > thought *that* was a dinosaur.
> >
> > CarrieB
> >
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