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    > Intel 8088 : 8/16-bit microprocessor — 8-bit registers with a 16-bit data bus.
> Uhh...8088 is 16-bit CPU

The 8086 / 8088 have eight registers, four general ones (AX, BX, CX, DX) which are made up of two 8 bit registers (AL, AH, BL, BH, CL, CH, DL, DH), so it's both not completely incorrect about 8 bit registers (although I'd agree that it's misleading to say that) but definitely incorrect about the 16 bit data bus.



By that logic, go ahead and call your 64-core AMD threadripper an eight bit processor too. Cause it still does that…




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