Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site 5941ux.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!houxm!5941ux!kfl From: kfl@5941ux.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc Subject: is the IBM PC an 8-bit machine? Message-ID: <133@5941ux.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 11:12:05 EST Article-I.D.: 5941ux.133 Posted: Sun Jan 22 11:12:05 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 01:10:53 EST Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 14 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