iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure

Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by nkurz on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:44PM (#35417557)

I'm still not following. You seem to have said above that the 8086 was an iteration of the 8088, whereas Wikipedia claims that the 8088 is instead a variant of the 8086. It also says that the 8088 came out after the 8086. Can you restate and clarify your claim? A typo seems like the most likely explanation, but maybe I'm just misunderstanding.

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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by CalChris on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:25PM (#35418191)

I'm only talking about the purpose of the 8086 as a stopgap for the very late 432. I shouldn't have mentioned the 8088.

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