Whoops, the 8088 was an incremental de-evolution of the 8086, a new chip that maintained *assembly* source compatibility, not object code compatibility, with the 8080.
The whole family, and the special-register architecture is diseased. Thankfully, the Merced will deviate from this.
Still, Sneakers had a lot more technical accuracy than just about every other movie that dealt with "today" technology. Most of the wire transmissions were text. Many of the graphical displays seemed like home-cooked interfaces for things. The blind stuff was neat. I really laughed my head off when I was watching Hackers, because it seemed to be about an alternate universe, yet they referred to publicly available documents (albeit ones that have no relevance to hacking--orange book, red book, peter norton book). Other things were funny, like large, plain-text passwords displayed on a very important computer. And I was told by many "hackers" that they had all of those books, ergo the movie was tech-right. I smiled, nodded, and thought for a few seconds about modifying their web pages, but who really wants these people to learn anything.
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Whoops, the 8088 was an incremental de-evolution of the 8086, a new chip that maintained *assembly* source compatibility, not object code compatibility, with the 8080.
The whole family, and the special-register architecture is diseased. Thankfully, the Merced will deviate from this.
-John
Still, Sneakers had a lot more technical accuracy than just about every other movie that dealt with "today" technology. Most of the wire transmissions were text. Many of the graphical displays seemed like home-cooked interfaces for things. The blind stuff was neat. I really laughed my head off when I was watching Hackers, because it seemed to be about an alternate universe, yet they referred to publicly available documents (albeit ones that have no relevance to hacking--orange book, red book, peter norton book). Other things were funny, like large, plain-text passwords displayed on a very important computer. And I was told by many "hackers" that they had all of those books, ergo the movie was tech-right. I smiled, nodded, and thought for a few seconds about modifying their web pages, but who really wants these people to learn anything.