@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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@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
@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
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