It may seem to some vintage computer newcomers that the plethora of numbers in the designation of early pc CPU and model types is just too confusing. After all isn’t Pentium, Pentium III and IV self explanatory? After all what do the numbers and terms 8088, 8086, 286, 286 and 486 represent anyway and what is the difference among them all?
To begin with the 8088 is the oldest of the early PC central Processing Unit (CPU) variant models. which means a rectangular case with t...
