Sabi ni Al noong Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:05:44 -0700 (PDT)
> 80C88 is the family and/or compatible of the first
> Intel 8088 processorLinux require's at least 80386
> family of processor, bcoz the floating point,
> math-coprocessor and address bus is better than 8088
> series.
More to the point, the 8088 (and its *predecessor* the 8086) lack the hardware
memory protection and management that's in the 80286 and later chips.
Mabuhay.
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