sometimes we think about the fact that the original game boy was technically an x86 system just like most modern computers
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@Felthry I feel like we had this discussion before, but it's not. The 8086 is 16-bit, not 8. The Gameboy CPU is kinda similar to the Z80 (they aren't compatible), which is an 8080-compatible, not 8086
@noiob it's still using the 8-bit version of the x86 instruction set though
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@Felthry there is no 8-bit x86 instruction set, there's 8080 which is not compatible and in turn, also not compatible with the Gameboy CPU. They're cousins at best
@noiob I thought the 8086 was backwards compatible with the 8080?
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@Felthry "8086 was designed to make asm source porting from 8080 easy (not the other direction). It is not binary compatible with 8080, and not source-compatible either." https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/6501
@noiob x86 is confusing, including in its history
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@Felthry true, especially considering a descendant of it is still the most popular architecture, some Intel engineers must be rolling in their graves constantly
this isn't particularly remarkable but it's still a little funny
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