Sujet : Re: Article on the 8088 bus cycle
De : terje.mathisen (at) *nospam* tmsw.no (Terje Mathisen)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 15. May 2024, 12:37:04
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Thomas Koenig wrote:
For anybody who ever wondered what exactly the 8088 was doing
while it was wast^H^H^H^Husing four cycles per memory access,
here's an interesting article:
http://www.righto.com/2024/04/intel-8088-bus-state-machine.html
I always thought the 4 cycles was inherited from the 8080/Z80 cpus and their support chips which the PC was going to use.
Terje
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