@noelle no, i think they diverged at around the turn of the century

@noelle turns out i'm wrong: C++ never was a strict superset of C, and indeed C99 adopted some C++ stuff

but, for example, K&R-style type declarations have never been valid C++, and nor has the idea of void* being a universal pointer type; and C++ is way stricter about function type signatures (which i guess is necessary to allow overloading)

wait a minute. according to wikipedia, the Motorola 6800 was announced in March 1974, and the Intel 8080 in April... does that mean that the 6800 predates the 8080?

ok, now you have my attention

https://hackaday.io/project/170111/logs

fixed it in my copy of fake86, at least - just needed getmem16 and putmem16 turned into functions to spot and deal with the edge case

(adding 8080 emulation to the V20 model is another day's project ;-) especially since i don't actually have a V20 to test it against)

i've just done a tour of every PC emulator i can find that claims to do 8086 emulation, and not one of them does the right thing with

with one exception - well done bochs! - emulators end up at CS:0x34. bochs, and real post-286 hardware, crash with a protection fault (well, bochs goes into an infinite loop, but that's close enough). but an 8086 will end up calling CS:0x1234, and anything that claims to specifically emulate an 8086 should emulate that behaviour too!

@alexandria damn! that's about when i'll get around to reading most of the books i've bought recently too...

describing LB: photo is of a black cat on top of a VAX 11/780, watching two black kittens exploring the top of a VAX 11/750