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The 8088 is an 8 bit bus implementation of an 8086, which is a 16 bit processor. The reason for providing the 8088 variant is simply to minimize the hardware cost and complexity of designing a system to use the 8088. This is the approach used for the first IBM PC. Some implementations, such as the Tandy 1000SX, used the 80186, a highly integrated version of the 8086, in a 16 bit bus configuration. Later versions, in order to increase performance, went ahead and provided 32, 64 and 128 bit bus implementations of advanced processors.

And, no, the 8086 is not a multiprocessing computer. It is a single processor. Intel did not get into multiprocessing until the Xeon and the Pentium IV.

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