I remember the first time I read about the hardware-based debugging functionality in the 80386 and being in awe. I'd programmed 6502 and 8086 assembler and was

I remember the first time I read about the hardware-based debugging functionality in the 80386 and being in awe. I'd programmed 6502 and 8086 assembler and was just blown-away by the treasure-trove of debugging functionality the '386 had available to it. It seemed like it was just short of an in-circuit emulator and so very, very cool.