In context: Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even ...

Recap: Intel introduced its first x86 processor architecture in 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor. A few years later, the company made history again with the 80286 – a CPU so successful that it ...

For the past few years, Chinese retro PC maker 8086YES! has been building and selling odd little computers that pack decades-old processors and other classic components into modern bodies designed for ...

Apart from having the most obvious name, 8085 Simulator developed by Vikas Enterprises has a simple and intuitive UI making it a perfect choice for beginners. One of its selling points is ISR or ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing. I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official ...

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The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps and games worked fine, and the very first Windows versions ran… ...

The 8086 Assembly Language Programs repository is a curated collection of low-level assembly code designed to verify and strengthen the understanding of the 8086 microprocessor architecture. It ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original 8086 inherits a ...

8086 is a 16-bit microprocessor and was designed in 1978 by Intel. Unlike, 8085, an 8086 microprocessor has 20-bit address bus. Thus, is able to access 220 i.e., 1 MB address in the memory. As we know ...