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  • Interview - Stephen Morse: Father of the 8086 Processor

    07/06/2008 1:35:22 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 8 replies · 199+ views
    PC World ^ | June 17, 2008 | Benj Edwards
    Excerpt - PCW: Can you share any funny, interesting, or unusual anecdotes about the 8086 that we haven't covered already? SM: I always regret that I didn't fix up some idiosyncrasies of the 8080 when I had a chance. For example, the 8080 stores the low-order byte of a 16-bit value before the high-order byte. The reason for that goes back to the 8008, which did it that way to mimic the behavior of a bit-serial processor designed by Datapoint (a bit-serial processor needs to see the least significant bits first so that it can correctly handle carries when doing...