>As far as I was told, the Zilog company was founded by some developers from I
>ntel that disagreed on the calling convention(and probably other things too)
Not quite, Zilog wanted to build a superset of the 8080. Also it had
simpler hardware interfacing, single 5V supply instead of several,
simplier clock source, etc.
>Also I was given the impression that the 8086 was a Military grade of the 808
>8. But Intel has used a lot of energy to downgrade their top CPU to satisfy m
>ore market segments. So the 8088 might be a civilian version of the 8086.
The 8086 came first, and the 8088 was an 8-bit external bus version
which made interfacing to memory cheaper at a performance cost.
