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Yes, absolutely. Ben Eater’s series is fantastic.

If you want to learn about simple microcode and how a (non-superscalar, which matches the 8086) CPU generally works, this is a brilliant resource, and fun to watch.



His entire channel is brilliant. I also love his homemade GPU. I forget sometimes just how fast CPUs are so watching him 'race the beam' (not literally anymore, but HDMI has timings just the same) is fascinating.




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