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		quickthrower2 on July 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatab... Suggestion: Remove the “Yes, “ and “, but” from the title to make it more HN-ish.

rep_lodsb on July 26, 2022 [–]

Memory safety should have been more a concern for the design of the 8086!

And if 8080 backwards compatibility is really necessary, we can write an emulator in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly and running on RISC-V. /s

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