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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004) by tabtab on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:16PM (#31099180)
The 16bit chip had to be backward compatible with the 8bit, no?
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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004) by thedeadfish on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:07PM (#31101494)
Kind of but not really, whilst it shares some design choices, the 8086 is neither source or binary compatible with the 8080.
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