One of the big decisions IBM made in creating the original IBM PC was choosing to use the Intel 8088 processor as its central processing unit (CPU). This turned out to be hugely influential in ...

IBM would sell you little three ring binders with the printed BIOS source code. The comments and source code were your documentation for calling the various functions in BIOS. So creating a new BIOS ...

Perhaps modern computing just isn’t thrilling you currently. (I know I have my complaints with it.) If that’s the case, a new laptop that celebrates the old, by repackaging a slice of early 1980s ...

IBM says it has broken the US patent record, having had 8088 patents granted in 2016. This is the first time any US company has had more than 8000 patents granted in a year. Areas of interest range ...

What makes the IBM PC so significant in the history of personal computing? Its impact goes far beyond being a simple product – it's a symbol of standardization and accessibility that reshaped the ...

Intel’s first significant CPU based in x86 turns 45 today. The 8088 Microprocessor was launched in 1979 and was Intel's first significant CPU, to bring its x86 architecture into prominence. It was the ...

On June 1, 1979, Intel introduced the 4.77 MHz 8088 microprocessor, featuring 16-bit registers and, unlike its predecessor, the 16-bit 8086, had an 8-bit external data bus. With that, as well as ...

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