These little 8-bit machines are awesome, but somewhat limited in their capability. [BigDumbDinosaur] sent in a computer he’s been working on for a few years now featuring the infamous 65816 CPU ...

We see many 16-bit retrocomputers around here based on Intel ... they were perfectly capable machines and, thanks to Elks (Embeddedable Linux Kernel Subset), you can run something fairly Linux ...

It is no secret that programming 16-bit machines was limiting, and we can identify at least two reasons to back this claim.