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The 8086 [3] (also called iAPX 86) [4] is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 [citation needed] and June 8, 1978, when it was released. [5] The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, [6] is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting ICs), [note 1] and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM ...
Intel's second generation of 32-bit x86 processors, introduced built-in floating point unit (FPU), 8 KB on-chip L1 cache, and pipelining. Faster per MHz than the 386. Small number of new instructions. P5 original Pentium microprocessors, first x86 processor with super-scalar architecture and branch prediction. P6
Below is the full 8086/8088 instruction set of Intel (81 instructions total). [2] These instructions are also available in 32-bit mode, in which they operate on 32-bit registers (eax, ebx, etc.) and values instead of their 16-bit (ax, bx, etc.) counterparts.
Intel hexadecimal object file format, Intel hex format or Intellec Hex is a file format that conveys binary information in ASCII text form, [10] making it possible to store on non-binary media such as paper tape, punch cards, etc., to display on text terminals or be printed on line-oriented printers. [11]
In marketing, iAPX (Intel Advanced Performance Architecture [1]) was a short lived designation used for several Intel microprocessors, including some 8086 family processors. [2] Not being a simple initialism seems to have confused even Intel's technical writers as can be seen in their iAPX-88 Book where the asterisked expansion shows iAPX to ...
The x86-64 architecture further provides the special SWAPGS instruction, which allows swapping the kernel mode and user mode base addresses. For instance, Microsoft Windows on x86-64 uses the GS segment to point to the Thread Environment Block , a small data structure for each thread , which contains information about exception handling, thread ...
Version 4.0 of OMF for the 8086 family was released in 1981 under the name Relocatable Object Module Format, [6] [3] [4] and is perhaps best known to DOS users as an .OBJ file. Versions for the 80286 ( OMF-286 ) [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and the 32-bit 80386 processors ( OMF-386 ) [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 3 ] were introduced in 1981 and 1985, respectively.
During the mid-1980s NEC and Intel had a long-running US federal court case about microcode copyright. [26] NEC had been acting as a second source for Intel 8086 CPUs with its NEC μPD8086, and held long-term patent and copyright cross-licensing agreements with Intel. In August 1982 Intel sued NEC for copyright infringement over the microcode ...