The packages were the same. What made the difference is the width of the external data bus.
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Sep 11, 2017
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-TV
Which primarily impacted price through the attached devices rather than the CPU itself.
Rick C
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Exactly. We made one of the very first applications with an 80188. I still have kept the prototype processor, one of the very first arriving to this side of the Pond, marked ESC for Engineering Sample series C.
-TV
No, the die was the same. The bond-out determined which it became. At least they started out that way. There may have been optimizations later.
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