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From: olcott <abc@def.com>
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Subject: Re: Is everyone here faking that they know anything about the x86
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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 08:07:06 -0500
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On 8/7/2024 1:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
> 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.
> 

Can you write programs in this language?
I have written many interrupt intercept TSR
programs in the 8088 versions of the language.
I was doing my own time slicing back in 1987.

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