[GloriousCow] had done the hardware part of interfacing to the 8088 in an IBM PC using an off ... you’ll agree that having the machine do the decoding for you is a boon. Decoding processor ...

Without the 8088 we wouldn't have the likes of the IBM Model 5150 – commonly known as the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) – which was one of the first machines to use it when it launched in 1981.

The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...

AT-class machines ran DOS and were extremely sluggish under Windows. See 286. The original PC launched by IBM in 1981 used Intel's 16-bit 8088 CPU. This chip family was designed so that the ...