Whilst masticating on , mark lewis (1:3634/12)
wrote to Russ Johnson:

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...

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

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