I was current on every other processor of this era, but I avoided 8086 because of the crappy addressing scheme. They (apparently) wanted to keep some sort of c

I was current on every other processor of this era, but I avoided 8086 because of the crappy addressing scheme. They (apparently) wanted to keep some sort of connection to 16-bit addressing, so they came up with the "segment registers", which were a real kludge. I guess I was wrong, and once they graduated from "real mode", it got better.