[Coco] How much memory

[Willard Goosey]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 07:04:30PM -0800, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> Thanks for that info, William. I didn't know the 8088 was a 16-bit CPU. I 
> always thought it was a 8-bit. Now I understand how it worked out that DOS 
> had more memory to play with.

Well, the 8088 has an 8-bit external data bus.  Internally it's
16-bits.  

And a "far" memory reference (One outside the currently-defined
segments) is indeed slower than a "near" reference, by at least one
full memory-cycle.

Willard
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