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Today is the 40th birthday of 8086; happy birthday pal

• krylon 8y ago
  Happy Birthday!
• leoc 8y ago
  The history's even longer and more tangled than you may know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200#The_seed_of_the_x86_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200#The_seed_of_the...
• mamon 8y ago
  Now I know why Intel has named its latest mainstream processor i7-8086 :)
• Retric 8y ago
  There are giving away 8086 different i7-8086 processors, so that's what 8086^2. https://game.intel.com/8086sweepstakes/ https://game.intel.com/8086sweepstakes/ PS: I did not check if there are any nasty terms and conditions around this one.
  • Fnoord 8y ago
    "This sweepstakes is only available for residents of USA, Canada (excluding Quebec), UK, France, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Mainland China and Taiwan."
• master_yoda_1 8y ago
  I spent couple of months programming with 8086 in my undergrads. Those were the day :)
• zwieback 8y ago
  Can I still complain that the 68000 should have won?