There's some appeal in constraints-- look at the people who do new homebrew NES/SNES games. I've built a kit-based 8088 product, and I have a 386 clone. The 3

There's some appeal in constraints-- look at the people who do new homebrew NES/SNES games. I've built a kit-based 8088 product, and I have a 386 clone. The 386 is more capable, but I've gotten more hobby mileage out of the 8088 because there's interesting projects built around coping with its limitations. (I designed a custom memory board because it was designed with 512k, and I wanted 640 and upper memory blocks, and did some firmware work that made the kit much more usable).