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.

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 ...

[GloriousCow] had done the hardware part of interfacing to the 8088 in an IBM PC using an off-the-shelf logic analyzer that uses a customized version of Sigrok. But the output was a CSV file you ...