Gus Wirth wrote:
They also happily run 16-bit code, aka DOS. Backward compatibility has been remarkably preserved across the entire x86 line.
At tremendous expense in chip real-estate and power consumption. I recall Andrew Lentvorski telling us all about it at Denny's one evening.
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