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Induction assignment for Computer Studies AS The development of the CPU: The CPU Began with a 5 MHz 8086 processor
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Induction assignment for Computer Studies AS The development of the CPU: The CPU Began with a 5 MHz 8086 processor, and today we are normally seeing 1.8 GHz to up over 2 GHz. This shows a huge development many years can make. CPU has transformed over the years and has been making huge developments and will carrying on doing so in the future. Intel was the first company who came out with the initial processor. IBM chose Intel's 8088 processor for the brains of the first PC. The Intel-8086 came out in 1978, this chip was skipped with use with the original PC, but it was used in computers that didn't require a lot of speed. It was a 16-bit processor. The chip contained 29,000 transistors and 20 address lines that gave it the ability to talk with up to 1 MB of RAM. The designers of the time created the chip to only...
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