24 Nov
2002
24 Nov
'02
10:39 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Hans Franke once stated:
Hmm... I have a hard time to agree here. The 8086/7/9 is
to me one of the best CPU designs ever - at least for a
true 16 Bit machine. I true atempt to brng the good parts
of mainframe design to microprocessors.
What is the 8089 used for? Some sort of DMA or IO controller?
-spc (Didn't mind programming the 80x86 in assembly ... )