Hell, you can find x86 instructions and concepts dating to the 8080 from 1974, and probably to the 8008 from 1972 (although I'm not familiar enough with it to c

Hell, you can find x86 instructions and concepts dating to the 8080 from 1974, and probably to the 8008 from 1972 (although I'm not familiar enough with it to confirm). It's funny how no-one has been able to dethrone x86 despite decades of effort from industry rivals and even Intel itself with iAPX and then Itanium.