Monday, 6. January 2014

Largest small system emulator


This entry weighs in at a magical 4043 bytes (8086 nibbles, 28,301 bits). It manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980’s era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the total number of transistors used to implement the original 8086 CPU.

If you are using OS X, the included sc-ioccc.terminal configuration file will correctly display console applications that use ANSI graphics.

ioccc.org

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