8086tiny, when deployed on the $25 Raspberry Pi, produces not only the world’s smallest but also the world’s cheapest PC. The answer: 4043 bytes of highly condensed C source code, which won the 2013 International Obfuscated C Code Contest.įollowing the contest, widespread demand led to the release of 8086tiny, a fully documented and commented distribution of the original code, including full BIOS source code. Thirty years later, I set out to answer the question of how small a highly portable, software PC emulator/virtual machine could be written, complete and accurate enough to simulate not just the Intel 8086 CPU but enough of the peripheral hardware to run software like Windows, AutoCAD, Lotus 1-2-3 and classic PC games. The personal computer as we know it today began in the early 80s with the release of the IBM PC – an incredibly complex machine for its time, and the result of hundreds of thousands of man-hours of development time, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. We caught up with Adrian last week and this is what he had to say: It was created by Adrian Cable who won IOCCC last year with 4043.
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