YouTube user theinternetftw has started to create a fully working 16-bit computer that runs entirely in Minecraft constructed from Minecraft blocks.

Do you remember the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit computing in the 1980s, and the jump from 16-bit to 32-bit platforms in the 1990s? Well, here we go again. We double up again, this time leaping from ...

Remember the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit operating systems? Larry Seltzer examines the comparative inertia surrounding the 64-bit transition.

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This 16-bit chip has more than 14,000. Modern computer processors have billions of transistors inside, even in smartphone chips, so carbon nanotubes still have a long way to go.

The D16/M is a 16-bit computer built using HCMOS logic chips. It’s a thing of beauty from every angle thanks to the work [John Doran] put into the hobby project. But he didn’t just take ...

A software engineer has turned his lounge into the world's best computer room by building a megaprocessor ...

The computer would have to go first to the word address, then scan within it. In a 16-bit word environment, the trade-off was minor and offered advantages to the hardware manufacturers.

Software engineer James Newman built a 16-bit Tetris-playing microprocessor the size of a room. It's thirty feet long and six feet high, weighs a thousand pounds, and cost $50,000 to build. Newman ...

News IBM makes a leap in quantum computing power There's now a 16-bit quantum computer on the IBM Cloud platform for businesses to experiment with.

A 32-bit computer does not result in two times as much real work getting done as a 16-bit machine, because it relates to only one aspect of internal processing.