What Was the Intel 8086?
The Intel 8086, released in 1978, started the x86 family that still runs most of the world’s computers. Here’s what the chip actually was, and why the IBM PC’s 8088 version made computer history.
The Intel 8086, released in 1978, started the x86 family that still runs most of the world’s computers. Here’s what the chip actually was, and why the IBM PC’s 8088 version made computer history.
The real story of the 1977 Tandy TRS-80: designed in-house at Tandy, sold through Radio Shack at $599, and one of the three machines that started the personal computer revolution.
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