Yesterday’s Technology, Re-engineered Today

A maker known as sprite_tm has built a handheld gaming computer around a four eighty-six processor — the Intel chip that powered computers in the nineteen nineties. According to Hackaday, the project explores a retro-computing question: in a device this small, how much of the original architecture actually needs to stay intact? It's a reminder that sometimes yesterday's technology, reengineered for today's form factors, tells us something new.

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