IBM's site stated: They went to Microsoft for the operating system (QDOS, renamed PC-DOS and later sold by Microsoft as MS-DOS) and to Intel for its 8088 processor. They chose an existing monitor ...

Without the 8088 we wouldn't have the likes of the IBM Model 5150 – commonly known as the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) – which was one of the first machines to use it when it launched in 1981.

Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that ... created by [jhhoward], that will happily run on an 8088 CPU or compatible, without requiring any fiddling with ...

The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor, 16 kilobytes of main memory, expandable to 256k, one or two 160kb floppy disk drives and an optional color monitor. All for a starting ...