👴🔍 Oh look, Ken discovered "unusual circuits" in a 38-year-old processor, like finding your grandpa's lost socks 🧦 in the attic and calling it archaeology. But hey, who doesn't love a good transistor-counting session while the rest of us ponder why our modern CPUs are throttling Fortnite? 💻🎮
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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently. The 386, introduced in 1985, was Intel's most complex pr...