Happy Birthday, Intel 8086: World's first x86 processor debuted exactly 48 years ago today
8d 23h ago by lemmy.world/u/Alphane_Moon in hardware from www.techspot.com
The processor designed for timesharing 8080 programs efficiently by adding 16 bit addresses to 16 bit page numbers shifted by 4 bits because who could afford more than 1MB of RAM anyway?
Oh neat! I'm celebrating that by getting a new Ryzen!