the vortex86dx SOCs seem to be somewhat along those lines.
I don't know what cpu they are copying but it is used in rasteri's tiny WeeCee

in the summary :

...seven Ohio police offers...

EEVblog 1637: Solar Freakin' Space Mirrors! - Reflect Orbital DEBUNKED

Since that 2037 problem was due to usage of 32 bits, I assume that get solved by moving to 64 bit

which 8 & 16 bit cpus were ever in the official linux kernel?

intel 386 support was removed a while ago and other functions were broken, like some old graphic card acceleration if I recall correctly
there's likely more old stuff that got broken in new kernels.

If that was truly the reason M$ should block their own msn homepage.

Nude Ski Jumping !

One has to wonder how long the lasers will last, and when they finally fail, will the drive still be usable as a Read Only drive .

IPv6 was already in use in 2004. not much to do with it yet but it was still available and usable.

CTRL-ESC also brings up the windows start menu, and then you start typing.

the only thing that it makes faster is all the shortcuts that are tied to the windows key like, I for settings, E for explorer, P for screen projection, L for lock, D for show desktop, ...

US government and accountability. Those two words, in the same sentence, these days. Well done.

Genetic modifications to turn all those microplastics in your body into soothing pain relief.

Recently, two weeks ago, did a video about this bismuth compound

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Microchip Breakthrough: World’s First Silicon-Free Processor

Disable updates completely and stop nagging me about it.

It's a feature.