Developed by Intel and introduced on June 1, 1979, the 8088 was used in the original IBM PC and XT personal computers. A variant of the 8086, the 8088 was available in speeds from 4.77 MHz to 8 MHz and used a 16-bit internal architecture with an 8-bit bus. It was capable of accessing up to 1 MB of RAM.

CPU terms, NEC V20

  • Computer processor history.