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 ...

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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.

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 ...