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document & cite Intel 8086, corrections on the topic of the 8088
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Intel 8080\footnotemark[2] \cite{intel8080} & 1974 \cite{intelquick} & 8/16/24 & 8 & 16 & 24 & MITS Altair 8800 \\
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Intel 8085 & 1976 \cite{intelquick} & 8/16 & 8 & 16 & 16 & Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 \\
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Intel 8085 & 1976 \cite{intelquick} & 8/16 & 8 & 16 & 16 & TRS-80 Model 100 \\
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Intel 8086\footnotemark[3] & 1978 \cite{intelquick} & 8/16/24/32 & 16 & 20 & 24 & Compaq Deskpro \\
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Intel 8086\footnotemark[3] \cite{intel8086} & 1978 \cite{intelquick} & 8/16/24/32 & 8/16 & 20 & 20 & Compaq Deskpro \\
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Intel 8088\footnotemark[4] \footnotemark[5] \cite{intel8088} & 1979 \cite{intelquick} & 8/16/24/32 & 8/16 & 20 & 24 & IBM PC 5150 \\
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Intel 8088\footnotemark[4] \footnotemark[5] \cite{intel8088} & 1979 \cite{intelquick} & 8/16/24/32 & 8/16 & 20 & 20 & IBM PC 5150 \\
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Zilog Z80\footnotemark[6] & 197x & 8-24 & 8/16 & 16 & 8 & Sinclair ZX Spectrum \\
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MOS 6502\footnotemark[7] & 197x & 8-24 & 8 & 16 & 8 & Commodore 64 \\
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Motorola 6800 & 197x & 8-24 & 8 & 16 & 8 & Sphere \\
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Motorola 6809 & 197x & 8-24 & 8 & 16 & 8 & Tandy Color Computer \\
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Motorola 6809 & 197x & 8-24 & 8 & 16 & 8 & TRS-80 Color Computer \\
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\caption{CPU Bitness table} % Add 'table' caption
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The secions below detail some CPU models that took particularly noteworthy trade-offs.
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\subsection{Intel 8088}
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\subsection{Intel 8086 \& 8088}
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The Intel 8088 was released a year after the Intel 8086. It offered the same instruction
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set, but reads and stores data 8 bits at a time from or into memory, where as the 8086
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The first IBM Personal Computer, model 5150, choose the Intel 8088 rather then the 8086.
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On the topic of "CPU Bitness", note that the title in the 8088 datasheet calls it an
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"8-BIT HMOS MICROPROCESSOR"\cite{intel8088}, while the 8086 is titled a "16-BIT HMOS
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MICROPROCESSOR"\cite{intel8086}. Still, the IBM PC 5150 is usually categorized as 16 bit.
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\subsection{Motorola 6800 \& MOS 6501/6502}
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\subsection{Texas Instruments TMS9900}
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Address: Page 1, Bus: Page 2, Instructions \& Data: Page 3.
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Intel Corporation, September 1975.
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\bibitem{intel8086}
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\textit{Intel 8086 16-BIT HMOS MICROPROCESSOR 8086/8086-2/8086-1}.
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Data: Page 1, Address \& Bus: Page 2, Instructions: Page 26.
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Intel Corporation, September 1990.
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\bibitem{intel8088}
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\textit{Intel 8088 8-BIT HMOS MICROPROCESSOR 8088/8088-2}.
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Data, Address \& Bus: Page 1, Instructions: Page 26.
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Data: Page 1, Address \& Bus: Page 2, Instructions: Page 26.
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Intel Corporation, August 1990.
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\end{thebibliography}

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