- The 8086 (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978, when it was released. The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting ICs), and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM PC design.
- Acamar (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
ACAMAR (Theta Eridani). Eridanus, the River, the embodiment of the Greek’s “River Ocean,” unlike real rivers has two ends. It now terminates in the brilliant first magnitude star Achernar (Alpha Eridani), the name from an Arabic phrase that means “the end of the river.” But Achernar is too far south to be visible from Greece. The original end of the river was the star we still call Acamar, which derives from the same phrase and means the same thing.