The BOOK 8088 is one of the weirdest laptops to launch in 2023. It’s a budget mini-laptop with a 7 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard… and the guts of a 40-year old computer including a Intel 8088 ...

Intel’s 8088 processor was released in 1979 and the 4.77 MHz processor was at the heart of the first IBM PC that was released two years later. While the processor is pretty sluggish by modern ...

As much as I admire the skillz that go into making these kinds of extreme retro/early days builds, I, for one, would HATE going back to that time. That's not to say I hated the times, of course. Every ...

It is not superscalar. At all. The Pentium family introduced that feature. The 386 doesn't have cache either so you'd have to pull some interesting stunts to feed the pipeline anyway. Sort of like the ...