ml>> released to the public, yes... IBM's engineers didn't think that
ml>> anyone would need the capabilities of the 8086 so they created
ml>> the 8088 with the same design except that it has an 8bit external
ml>> data buss instead of the 8086's 16bit external data buss... both
ml>> chips have a 16bit internal data buss... this meant that the 8088
ml>> had to read the data buss twice and then do the work...

ml>> those guys (IBM) had no vision... still don't, i don't believe...

 AH> If they did, they wouldn't have surrendered the desktop war.
 AH> OS/2 was, and maybe still is, superior to Windows, but IBM
 AH> backed down to M$.  *adh*

true about OS/2 being the better of the two... however, IBM didn't backdown
only because of m$... there was also the large home and soho user support
network to contend with... m$ was already used to that... IBM wasn't and
wanted to make money like they always had by charging for service and
support...

)\/(ark