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The Intel 8088 And 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry
The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...
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Intel 8086
The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...
PC Magazine6y
Virtual 8086 Mode
An operational state in an Intel CPU that allows it to perform as multiple 8086/8088 CPUs, which was the architecture of the first x86 chip. Virtual 8086 Mode divides the computer into multiple ...
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Intel's first blockbuster chip was the 8088 – and it changed everything 45 years ago
Although only a minor improvement on the 8086, the 8088 Micro-processor has gone down in history – and is arguably what fuelled Intel's rise to dominate a market for so many decades, according ...
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In old PCs, what was the function of the "Turbo" button?
This button was commonly found on PCs during the 1980s and early 1990s, particularly after the release of the original Intel 8086 processor, which operated at 4.77 MHz. At that time, many software ...