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RE: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General
- From: Dom Latter <DLatter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Jun 21 21:37:01 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> 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.
I suspect you're thinking of the 80186/8. The 8088 is an 8086 with an 8
bit data bus; the 8018x chips had integrated interrupt and DMA controllers
and a timer and so were used as microcontrollers.