On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 9:12 AM, allison via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Looked at 8086 and decided it was a 8080 with a bag on the side. > It was and still is irrational. > With the 386 architecture (32-bit), they actually cleaned it up quite a bit. I won't go nearly so far as to say that 386 is elegant, but when running in 32-bit mode with flat addressing it's nowhere near as awful as 16-bit 8086 and 286. AMD did a pretty good job of further extending that to 64-bit. However, it does keep accumulating ever more bags on the side. I hope RISC-V eventually drives a stake through it.