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Open-Source z386 Brings Intel 80386 Microcode Back to Life (linuxiac.com)
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[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

the good ol days screaming along at 25mhz

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 months ago

25?

Had a PC with a turbo button that took it to 8? 12?

[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

haha ya, 386DX2 8Mhz base with the flaming 25Mhz turbo

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I remember playing wing commander on my 386. EMM was almost a requirement. But they got loads done with.very limited hardware (compared to now). Hopefully software and software devs can go back to prioritizing efficiency over bloat.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago

Next, someone should build a unusably slow but completely accurate transistor-level simulation of the 386 (as they did of the admittedly much simpler 6502) and validate this against it to ensure that it actually is 100% accurate.

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