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The Intel 8086 chip only has 19618 transistors instead of the 29k advertised

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28 points by tudorconstantin 3 years ago · 5 comments

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ishvanl 3 years ago

I want my money back.

metadat 3 years ago

Discussed yesterday:

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34382744 (39 comments)

karmakaze 3 years ago

ROM data implemented this way should estimate 1/2 the number of bits as transistors.

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