Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Nov 2007 15:45 UTC
"Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the Minix OS - a cousin of Linux [I beg your pardon?] - running on his homebrew minicomputer, today at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. Magic-1, built with 74-series TTL ICs using wire-wrap construction, implements a homebrew, 8086-like ISA."
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2006-04-05
Now that's a glutton for pain. Why not something like Z80 or 68k, if one wants to keep oneself in the microcode realm?
I guess it's a matter of taste, after all. All I can say is that I'd never use 8086 for inspiration.
(Unless the article is regarding ISA as the instruction set mnemonics, and not the actual machine code representation.)
All IMHO, of course.