Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from the 8080, but

Re:Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from... by f311a on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:25PM (#32230445)

After reading the title and domain name, I already knew who the author is.

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Re:Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from... by commonlisper on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:33PM (#32230535)

Exactly! Raymond Chen is doing a great job at sharing interesting stories from a bygone era.

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Re:Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from... by criddell on Monday July 25, 2022 @05:05PM (#32230913)

Bygone? It's a fairly regular occurrence where I search for some Win32 API and end up on Chen's blog. I get what you are saying about articles like this one though. I can't imagine much new work is happening with the 8086 (or 8088 or '186 or '286 or ...)

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Re:Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from... by GabrielTFS on Monday July 25, 2022 @05:10PM (#32230980)

I mean even w.r.t. Windows stuff, quite a large part of what he talks about is variations on "here's an interesting old anecdote from 1995" or "You know that thing that's totally useless now and doesn't matter ? Here's why we absolutely needed it in 1989."

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Re:Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from... by rjbwork on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:32PM (#32230519)

Lol. My exact thoughts before clicking the link "Let me guess, this is Chen"

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Re:Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from... by AceJohnny2 on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:34PM (#32230545)

Everybody Loves Raymond

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