old 8088 system course++

I haven''t been following this thread too closely, but a very useful book that straddles the hardware/software issue with the 8088/86 is "8086/8088 16-Bit Microprocessor Primer" by Chris Morgan and Mitch Waite, McGraw-Hill, 1982, ISBN 0-07-043109. Even has a fairly detailed section on the Great Hope of Intel at the time, the iAPX-432 chipset, as well as a brief mention of the 186 and 286. Orientation is somewhat CP/M-ish and moderately historical. It's got a section on the IBM Acorn (mentions that a 48K, one floppy system is listed at $3830, but is going for $2235 at Computerland) and is a direct competitor to Radio Shack and Apple systems. Mentions CP/M-86 extensively and says that PC-DOS is CP/M-like and treats MS-DOS as if it were a completely different animal from MS-DOS (just a few sentences on either). If you can't find one, I think I've got an extra copy I might be convinced to part with. Cheers, Chuck