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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Is everyone here faking that they know anything about the x86 language?
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 09:48:02 +0300
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On 2024-08-05 15:16:27 +0000, olcott said:

> I have been working in the x86 language back when my work
> computer at the US Army corps of engineers was an IBM PC
> with an 8088 processor, 512K of RAM and dual floppy drives.
> 
> I was creating dBASE III systems on this computer. This was
> before the 8086 processor even existed thus the name x86
> language did not yet exist.

Intel 8088 is a variant of 8086 for less expensive computers.
Intel 8086 already exsted when the first 8088 computers were
sold. Later Intel develped 80188, 80186, and other processors
that cold run programs that were written or compiled for 8086,
so someone coined the term x86 for the family.

-- 
Mikko