How many of us can say, hand on heart, that we haven’t at one point been tempted to turn a room in our home into, say, the Batcave, the U.S.S. Enterprise bridge, or some other bit of fanboy nerdery ...

AUSTIN, Tex.–Motorola Inc.–the market leader in 8-bit microcontrollers and 32-bit embedded processors–is aiming to move up from its third-place ranking in 16-bit microcontrollers. The company today ...

If you are limiting yourself to only 16 instructions, which ones should you chose, and how do you manage without the ones that fall by the wayside? In my previous column on our project to build a ...

The Atari 520ST was Atari's first 16-bit salvo in the personal computer wars of the 1980s. A new book by ExtremeTech Editor-in-Chief Jamie Lendino shows the tremendous influence the ST had on both ...

Everything in the digital world is measured in bits and bytes. Following are the common components in a computer that are measured in bits. See bit and binary values. The "word" size is the number of ...

[Bob] calls his custom 16-bit computer “Bob’s Unnecessary Retro Processor” or BURP for short. While we suppose it is technically unnecessary, we love the look of it, and we hope he just used it to get ...

Hi everyone! Have you heard of the brand new 8-bit computer built from (mostly) off-the-shelf parts called Commander X16 made by a team of people under The 8-Bit Guy (David Murray)? If so what are ...

One challenge posed by the steady advancement of computer hardware and software design is how to maintain reasonable continuity with the existing state of technology. Fantastic leaps forward may be ...