I know it's heretical, but the '286 had a bunch of really interesting innovations, like a primitive capabilities based architecture. The big downfall of the '2

I know it's heretical, but the '286 had a bunch of really interesting innovations, like a primitive capabilities based architecture. The big downfall of the '286 was they tried to do the 8086 backward compatibility and completely screwed it up. Ignoring that and writing an OS just for the '286 features was kinda interesting at the time. Not now...but at the time.