Subject: Re: Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software
From: "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:09:22 -0600
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Jim Leonard wrote:
Here's another dumb question: When I open up one of my XTs, why does
my 8088-1 have an AMD logo on it?
That's an easy one ... IBM insisted on two sources for the 8088. AMD
made an 8088 clone under license from Intel, and was the second supplier
used by IBM. Unlike the V20, it was an exact duplicate.
Mike
www.brutman.com/PCjr
By that time NEC had the 8088, AMD, And at least one European SGS maybe
and a few I may have forgot. in 1981 The 8088 was already three
years old!
Allison