[HN Gopher] The Complete Bus Logic of the Intel 8088
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       The Complete Bus Logic of the Intel 8088
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2024-02-10 07:19 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | simonebrunozzi wrote:
       | Little unknown story: the 8088 was designed in Israel, but was
       | inspired by Italian physicist Federico Faggin. [0], who invented
       | its predecessor, the 4004.
       | 
       | You can see in his foundation page [1] that the 4004 had its
       | initials (FF) circuit-stamped in the board.
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       | [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin
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       | [1]: http://www.fagginfoundation.org/it/biografia/
        
         | Waterluvian wrote:
         | As the designer of the 8080 and Z80, that kind of makes Faggin
         | the father of the brain of the Game Boy.
         | 
         | And I wasn't aware so many Intel processors were developed in
         | Israel.
         | 
         | I feel like if we walked down the entire supply chain and
         | design lineage of a device like the Game Boy, we'd see a
         | wonderful collaboration of people from many regions across
         | time. All contributing to keep me quiet on long car rides.
        
           | ant6n wrote:
           | Kind of incidental which Chip is inside the game boy. For
           | example, the gba has a 32 bit ARM.
        
             | Waterluvian wrote:
             | True. But everything is trivia at a point.
        
         | kens wrote:
         | That history is a bit muddled so let me clarify. I'm a big fan
         | of Federico Faggin, but Stan Mazor, Ted Hoff, and Masatoshi
         | Shima are also co-inventors of the 4004. Next, the 4004 had
         | approximately nothing to do with later processors including the
         | 8088. The 8008 was built to copy the design of the TTL-based
         | Datapoint 2200 computer. (TI produced its copy, the TMX 1795,
         | before Intel produced the 8008.) Datapoint rejected the 8008 so
         | Intel sold it as a product. The 8008 was followed by the 8080
         | and 8085 and then extended to the 16-bit 8086. The 8086 was
         | intended as a temporary stopgap until Intel completed the iPAX
         | 432, their flagship processor. (The "micromainframe" 432 was a
         | failure.) Intel Israel created a lower-cost version of the 8086
         | with an 8-bit bus. This was the 8088, which was used in the IBM
         | PC, creating the success of the x86 architecture.
        
       | HeOwnsTwitter wrote:
       | After using a sibling's Ti-99/4a, my first real "puter" was a
       | hand-me-down PC/XT with an 8088, CGA, 256k RAM and dual 5-1/4"
       | floppy drives. Much appreciation for the nostalgic post.
        
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