Intel likes to pretend that the iAPX432 never happened. Some friends and I were waiting for it to be released to build a machine around it, but then the Berkele

Intel likes to pretend that the iAPX432 never happened. Some friends and I were waiting for it to be released to build a machine around it, but then the Berkeley RISC papers came out with their benchmarks. Even though the 8086 was far slower than RISC I it was still so much faster than the 432 that we dropped our plans. Intel had been proposing that the 8086 would be an i/o controller for the 432 but now this would be like having your keyboard processor be much faster than your CPU. The second version (i960) kept the good parts of the iAPX432 while making it very competitive but by then the PC had made that irrelevant.