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Wed, 14 Jun 2006

Full motion video done on an 8088 CPU.

I would never have believed it... These guys have written some software for the 8088 CPU, and a CGA card that shows an original PC could display full motion video - including sound.

Here is the link - www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption

Clearly this was done without a windoze front end.. So it begs the question, where would we be today if the operating system of choice wasn't so heavy.

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