Please remind me how we are moving forward. In this video, a machine from the year ~2000 (600MHz, 128MB RAM, spinning-rust hard disk) running Windows NT 3.51. Note how incredibly snappy opening apps is. 👇
The 8086 processor (1978) led to the hugely-popular x86 architecture. Internally, the 8086 uses microcode, running a tiny program for each machine instruction.
I'm reverse-engineering the chip from die photos and I can explain exactly how the 8086 microcode engine works.🧵