[net.micro] is the IBM PC an 8-bit machine?

kfl@5941ux.UUCP (01/22/84)

Quote for today (from Microsystems, January, 1984):

"We introduced the 8088 as an 8-bit microprocessor
because although the internal architecture is
16-bits the I/O bus interface is that of the 8085.
It was not until IBM introduced the IBM PC that we
discovered it really was a 16-bit microprocessor.
We could tell it because we read it in all the ads
in the airline magazines."

	-David House
	 Vice President and General Manager
	 Microcomputer Group
	 Intel Corporation