Reply to post: Re: Mixed signals on CPU's @herman

We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare

Peter Gathercole Silver badge

Re: Mixed signals on CPU's @herman

I don't believe MSDOS ever ran on the 8080 processor, which was 8-bit.

The lowest would have been an 8088, as per the original 5150 IBM PC, which is a 16 bit processor with an 8-bit data bus and an 20-bit address bus, allowing 1MB of physical memory.

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