We see many 16-bit retrocomputers around here based on Intel and Intel-like chips such as the 8086, 8088, V20, and similar. While they don’t seem very powerful by today’s standards ...

While the 8086 has 3 16-bit slots in the instruction prefetcher the 8088 gets 4 slots, each 8-bit. The prefetching hardware is part of the Bus Interface Unit (BIU), which effectively decouples the ...

the 8088 and 8086, it was NEC that cashed in with improved versions, its V20 and V30. Of all the many Z80-based home computers in the 1980s, only one made the leap to a 16-bit version, and then ...

A PC driver written to the original Intel 16-bit 8086/8088 chip, which is limited to 1MB of memory. See Real Mode. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

In theory, these machines could have leveraged larger chunks of memory and, in fact, the 16-bit 8086 proved this to be true ...