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echo: classic_computer
to: DAN CEPPA
from: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
date: 2005-02-07 12:48:06
subject: Hardware MB question

-> -> Re: Hardware MB question

->  ->  DC> I'll see what I can to to move it to those 4086 chips!
->  
->  ->  BK> Which were those? Did they run at half the speed of 8086?
->  
->  -> No, if I got it right, they had only 1/2 of the "words" 
->  -> available to them.  

->  WC> Called a "nibble" rather than a byte.

-> Was it called a nibble before or after byte was used?  

You've got me.
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