The ELKS project provides a Linux-like operating system for 16-bit Intel processors, including the 8086 used in the IBM 5150 PC, as well as later generations such as the 8088, 80188, 80186, and ...

Thanks to the Intel 8086 processor, which appeared back in 1978, the 16-bit market had enough time to develop. For a while, architectures coexisted — the original 8-bit Commodore 64 was released in ...