Electronic chips are generally numbered.

When Intel made the first 4 bit microprocessor, it was called the 4004. At the time, they did not realize it was a microprocessor, they were just making a custom integrated circuit for a handheld electronic calculator. The instruction set on the 4004 was quite limited; an upgraded version was numbered 4040 by reversing the last two digits. By now, they realized the power of a programmable microprocessor. When they made 8 bit processors, the double wide 4004 was the 8008, and the double wide 4040 was the 8080. The 8085 was the 5 volt only version of the 8080. When Intel made an upgraded 8085 into a 16 bit processor, the next number was 8086. They liked this, as it seemed to fit the 16 bit nature. The 8088 was an 8086 with an 8 bit data bus for fewer pins on the package, and I think the 8087 was a math coprocessor (things are starting to get fuzzy, this was quite a few years ago). Note that there is no

law requiring any particular numbering scheme, it is not unusual to skip numbers or make up new numbers that seem to have some kind of meaning. Later they went with a new generation 80186, then 80286, then 80386 and I think, 80486. They dropped the "80" in front somewhere along the way, it was common to call a microprocessor a 386SX or 486. Then, they pretty much dumped the numbers entirely, because other companies were using them. Making up names like Pentium for the 586 means they could trademark them and prevent others from using them.

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5 means the microprocessor operates at+5 volt. third 8 means 8bits,its wordlength is 1byte. 80 indicates it was devoloped in eightys(1976)

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1)The microprocessor came in the late 70s(1976).This was close to 80.so from here 1ST TWO DIGITS were taken.

2)There are 8 bits in microprocessor.Hence the 3RD DIGIT was tkaen as 8. 3)Before 8085,8086 the CPU of intel corporation was 8080A which were requiring +5V,-5V and +12V for functioning. With the advancement in technology, it was possible to run the microprocessor with single +5V.Hence the LAST DIGIT were taken as 5. This was the hidden message behind 8085, (year)(bits)(supply voltage) 80 8 5 /////////////////////////////////// the first 80 is the specific series . nw, it has 8 software interrupts and 5 hardware gh intrepts

The Intel 8085 is an 8bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1977. It was binary-compatible with the more-famous Intel 8080 but required less supporting hardware, thus allowing simpler and less expensive microcomputer systems to be built. The "5" in the model number came from the fact that the 8085 requires only a +5-volt (V) power supply rather than the +5V, -5V and +12V supplies the 8080 needed. Both processors were sometimes used in computers running the CP/M operating system, and the 8085 also saw use as a microcontroller, by virtue of its low component count. Both designs were eclipsed for desktop computers by the compatible Zilog Z80, which took over most of the CP/M computer market as well as taking a share of the booming home computer market in the early-to-mid-1980s. The 8085 had a long life as a controller. Once designed into such products as the DECtapecontroller and the VT100 video terminal in the late 1970s, it continued to serve for new production throughout the life span of those products (generally longer than the product life of desktop computers)

ntel 8080 - The successor to the Intel 8008. The 8080 had a 16-bit address bus and an 8-bit data bus. It had seven 8-bit registers (six which could also be combined as three 16-bit registers), a 16bit stack pointer to memory which replaced the 8008's internal stack and a 16-bit program counter. It also had 256 I/O ports (so I/O devices could be connected without needing to allocate any addressing space as is required for memory mapped devices) and a signal pin that allowed thestack to occupy a separate bank of memory.