The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...
The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...
So why did IBM choose the Intel 8088 processor to be in its first PC ... So why did IBM ultimately pick the 8088 over the 8086? Bradley said that the final choice was due to a familiar reason ...