[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

(snip)

> 8086 started off 16 bits, was upgraded to 32 bits and later 64.

Actually, the 8086 is the 16 bit extension of the 8080. 

The registers and instruction set were carefully designed to make
it easy to port 8080 code with minimal rewriting.

Some consider the 8080 as an extension of the 4004 or 4040, but
that might be stretching it too far.

-- glen