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The chip’s design was partly influenced by the need to maintain some backward compatibility with 8‑bit software while also providing a richer instruction set for high‑level languages such as Pascal and PL/M.
Although the [[PC|IBM PC ]] later used the nearly identical 8088 (which featured an 8‑bit external data bus for cost savings), the 8086 itself became the architectural blueprint for the x86 family, directly influencing later processors.
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