Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto ... created by [jhhoward], that will happily run on an 8088 CPU or compatible, without requiring any fiddling with EMS ...

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.

he tested the client on a real 1984 vintage IBM 5155 Portable PC. This semi-portable PC/XT model sports a 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU, 640 kB of RAM and a CGA video card with a built-in monochrome monitor.