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Counting the transistors in the 8086 processor: it's harder than you might think

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How many transistors are in Intel's 8086 processor? This seems like a straightforward question, but it doesn't have a straightforw...
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Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977

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How does a vintage airspeed indicator work? CuriousMarc picked one up for a project, but it didn't have any documentation, so I revers...
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The 8086 processor's microcode pipeline from die analysis

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Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor in 1978, and its influence still remains through the popular x86 architecture. The 8086 was a fai...
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Inside the 8086 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry

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The groundbreaking 8086 microprocessor was introduced by Intel in 1978 and led to the x86 architecture that still dominates desktop and se...
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