By: Maxwell (max.delete@this.a.com), August 4, 2014 7:55 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Obviously a typo, he meant 8080. Although the 8086 wasn't binary compatible with the 8080, you could convert 8080 assembly source code to 8086 with a simple translator (not that anyone did).
Personally I think it's awesome how Intel has maintained 100% compatibility over the years, avoiding the temptation to take shortcuts. And the "baggage" can be useful sometimes, e.g. x86 has a coherent instruction cache for compatibility, which boosts JIT performance.
Max
Personally I think it's awesome how Intel has maintained 100% compatibility over the years, avoiding the temptation to take shortcuts. And the "baggage" can be useful sometimes, e.g. x86 has a coherent instruction cache for compatibility, which boosts JIT performance.
Max
