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echo: classic_computer
to: DAN CEPPA
from: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
date: 2005-02-06 17:44:52
subject: Hardware MB question

-> -> Re: Hardware MB question

->  GG>> would love it if it contained more discussion of older
computers rather
->  GG>> than car and automotive industry talk.
->  
->  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.  

Called a "nibble" rather than a byte.
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