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Where Did the Term '86' Come From? (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by thunderbong on Oct 27, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


86 (term) since the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)

Intel 8086 (1978) ... X86 (and AMD64/X86-64)

Motorola 680x0 / m68k (6800: 1974, 68000: 1979) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000 .. "Motorola's pioneering 8-bit 6800: Origins and architecture" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616591

X86: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86


FWIW, "Smoky and the Bandit" was released in 1977 and it is about Prohibition in the US shortly after the ending of the Bretton-Woods gold-reserve system (1971) and then the CSA (1971) (Which failed, and caused violent organized crime, and was withdrawn by Constitutional amendment in part due to Al Smith).




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