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Subject: is the IBM PC an 8-bit machine?
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Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 11:12:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 22 11:12:05 1984
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Quote for today (from Microsystems, January, 1984):

"We introduced the 8088 as an 8-bit microprocessor
because although the internal architecture is
16-bits the I/O bus interface is that of the 8085.
It was not until IBM introduced the IBM PC that we
discovered it really was a 16-bit microprocessor.
We could tell it because we read it in all the ads
in the airline magazines."

	-David House
	 Vice President and General Manager
	 Microcomputer Group
	 Intel Corporation