5 ms·Intel chips even support 16-bit processing. How is that not baggage?by higherpurpose 12y agoIntel chips even support 16-bit processing. How is that not baggage?wmf 12y agoIt is baggage, but it costs very little.nknighthb 12y agoAn 8086 had <30k transistors. Haswell is well over a billion. They could add a hundred dedicated 8086 cores to Haswell and you wouldn't notice the difference.