Before understanding about 8086 microprocessors let us get a brief introduction on microprocessors. Read about microprocessors here
Now, A few points about 8086 microprocessor-
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- 8086 is the first 16-bit microprocessor made by Intel.
- D V Hall or Liu Gibson are some of the good books to read about 8086.
- Feature such as Memory segment registers was first seen in this processor.
- Prior to 8086 Intel made processors such 4004, 8080, 8085.
- Following 8086 were…. 80186, 80286, 80386 (32-bit processor from this point), 80486, Pentium, core2duo…core i3……
- Modern-day desktop processors are often distinguished by x86 or AMD64.
- x86 means the processor has lineage to 8086 and is a 32-bit processor.
- AMD64 is 64-bit processor architecture first made by AMD later adopted by Intel.
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While it is very hard to understand the working of 8086 microprocessor, the following video will make you understand the 8086 microprocessor once and for all.
