Questions tagged [16-bit]
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Operating systems running programs in 286 16-bit protected mode
I'm looking for existing, old operating systems which can run programs in 286 16-bit protected mode. (Please note that in this question I'm not interested in 16-bit programs for the 8086 and 80186, or ...
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Dongle Support for 16 bit Program with Win 11 using WineVDM
I need to run an old 16-bit database (related to an instrument) in a new 64bit Win11 pc. As ntvdm is no longer included in newer version of Win10 and Win11, I installed this program with the open ...
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How can I reverse-engineer the game Wizardry (1981) for PC, based on UCSD Pascal?
I am looking at the files included with the 1981 game Wizardry. The particular version I have is from a 1998 re-release, but I do not know if the binary is still the original 1981 release. My ...
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Most modern C compilers targeting DOS 8086, running on DOS 8086 (16-bit)
I'm looking for the most recent versions of modern C compilers which were/are targeting DOS 8086, also running on DOS 8086 (16-bit). I'm mostly interested in production-ready C compilers, rather than ...
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Was `wchar_t` ever widely adopted by the Unix culture in actual practice?
My very rough understanding of character encoding history as it relates to the Unix family of platforms/languages is that: They started using single-byte (7/8/9-ish bit) character sets like ASCII/...
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How can 8bits = 1byte but also = 255 bytes at the same time? [closed]
I don't understand why 8bits is defined as being equal to 1byte or 1octet but at the same time the maximum capacity of an 8bit bus or 8bit databus would be 255 bytes because 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 1 1 ...
