As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive Part 2: The 16-bit era Welcome back to The Reg FOSS desk's roundup of the slip-ups and missteps from the dawn of the microcomputer ...

Do you remember the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit computing in the 1980s, and the jump from 16-bit to 32-bit platforms in the 1990s? Well, here we go again. We double up again, this time leaping from ...

The 16-bit computer design example is especially worth a look. Want a more complex example? Here’s a blazing-fast 8080 CPU built with bitslice.

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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Windows 95, the operating system that revolutionized personal computing and introduced ...

The original x86 architecture emerged in 1978 with the 16-bit 8086 processor. As computing demands grew over the decades, Intel added new capabilities to handle 32-bit and 64-bit computing.

The computer would have to go first to the word address, then scan within it. In a 16-bit word environment, the trade-off was minor and offered advantages to the hardware manufacturers.

Intel has released a whitepaper outlining a way to simplify its CPU architectures by removing legacy 16-bit and 32-bit support, therefore making them 64-bit only.

Researchers and tech companies are racing to develop quantum computers that can solve hard scientific problems that conventional computers can’t. Mark Horowitz, who chaired a 2019 National Academies ...