<story><title>GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers</title><url>https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LukeShu</author><text>There wasn&amp;#x27;t really an important 8086 box.  The first IBM PC (1981) used the 8088. The first 8086 PCs were the discount models in the PS&amp;#x2F;2 line (April 1987), 3 years after the 80286 in the PC&amp;#x2F;AT (1984); so the 8086 was already obsolete by the time it was in a PC. And later that year (August 1987) it would be even more obsolete when an 80386DX PS&amp;#x2F;2 came out.</text></item><item><author>mrlonglong</author><text>This chap has also built a 8088 PC clone. I&amp;#x27;m just wondering why not a 8086?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MenhirMike</author><text>The one truly important 8086-based machine I can think of is the Japanese NEC PC-9801, so it would make some sense for someone to clone a machine like that. Though I&amp;#x27;m not sure if I&amp;#x27;d clone the original 9801 that kicked off the entire line or rather go for the much improved NEC V30 chip instead. (Which also powered Irem&amp;#x27;s M72 Arcade Board, which ran R-Type, and the latter M82&amp;#x2F;M84 boards that gave us R-Type II - though arguably, arcade boards aren&amp;#x27;t in the same category as home computers)</text></comment>
<story><title>GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers</title><url>https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LukeShu</author><text>There wasn&amp;#x27;t really an important 8086 box.  The first IBM PC (1981) used the 8088. The first 8086 PCs were the discount models in the PS&amp;#x2F;2 line (April 1987), 3 years after the 80286 in the PC&amp;#x2F;AT (1984); so the 8086 was already obsolete by the time it was in a PC. And later that year (August 1987) it would be even more obsolete when an 80386DX PS&amp;#x2F;2 came out.</text></item><item><author>mrlonglong</author><text>This chap has also built a 8088 PC clone. I&amp;#x27;m just wondering why not a 8086?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwg</author><text>&amp;gt; The first 8086 PCs were the discount models in the PS&amp;#x2F;2 line (April 1987)&lt;p&gt;You missed two earlier ones.  The Olivetti M24 (also sold as the AT&amp;amp;T 6300 in the US) was released in 1983 and used the 8086 CPU.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Olivetti_M24&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Olivetti_M24&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>