Intel was inside the first personal computer, but how and why it got picked is sometimes a matter of contention. Michael is CIO at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm. From 1991 to ...

Intel’s 8088 processor was released in 1979 and the 4.77 MHz processor was at the heart of the first IBM PC that was released two years later. While the processor is pretty sluggish by modern ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

The Intel 8088 CPU in the IBM PC and IBM PC XT personal computers. See IBM PC and 8088. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps and games worked fine, and the very first Windows versions ran… ...

Last time we talked about how the original PC has a limit of 640 kB for your programs and 1 MB in total. But of course those restrictions chafed. People demanded more memory, and there were ...