Happy 30, 80186 (and 0b100000, 8051)

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As mentioned in past blog posts on Simics, maintaining old software and developing new software for older hardware is a not-too-uncommon use case for Simics. Case in point: we recently added a couple of new target processors to the Simics model library that most people would probably consider "surprisingly old" hardware. For a long-time embedded programmer like myself, it just feels like going back to the roots.

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