Then again there is no 16 bit Linux software as there has never been 16 bit Linux, and 16-bit software for other operating systems is trivially emulated without

Then again there is no 16 bit Linux software as there has never been 16 bit Linux, and 16-bit software for other operating systems is trivially emulated without requiring hardware support. It might all be somewhat of an interesting exercise but it doesn’t have real world value.