As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 8086, there is quite a bit going on to go from something like a conditional jump instruction t… ...

If Intel only had retroactively updated the 8088/8086 line with the “8086-2” ISA (there are 8086-1 and 8086-2 chips, but they’re not related to the instructions set). The Z80 series had an ...

Forty years ago, Intel released the 8086 processor, introducing the x86 architecture that underlies every PC—Windows, Mac, or Linux—produced today.

They aren’t just a bunch of ever-increasing numbers. For a practical (well, virtual) example, check out the latest version of a computer processor built exclusively inside the Minecraft game engine.