Without the 8088 we wouldn't have the likes of the IBM Model 5150 – commonly known as the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) – which was one of the first machines to use it when it launched in 1981.

I learned that Charles Bukowski, “laureate of American lowlife”, wrote about the incompatibilities of early comp ...

Custom-built devices for running vintage PC software are trending, with new models embracing different approaches to retro emulation. Unlike the Book 8088, which featured a genuine ...

See 286. The original PC launched by IBM in 1981 used Intel's 16-bit 8088 CPU. This chip family was designed so that the installed base of CP/M applications could be easily ported to the new ...

When IBM introduced the 286-based PC AT in 1984, its 24 address lines could reach 16MB of RAM, whereas the previous 8088 CPU could only reach 1MB and had the oddity of wrapping addresses beyond ...