On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
45 years ago this month Intel revealed the 8086 processor which became x86 technology that formed the backbone of PC technology. The 8-bit era came to an end about 7 years later. For classic computing a new era began.
Some might enjoy a little bit about the internals of the 8086: https://www.righto.com/2023/03/8086-register-codes.html https://www.righto.com/search/label/8086 (third party reverse engineering; not Intel internal documents)
