I once encountered a note from one of the people working on iAPX 432, claiming that the core idea of high level cpu wasn't really the issue it tanked, but proje

I once encountered a note from one of the people working on iAPX 432, claiming that the core idea of high level cpu wasn't really the issue it tanked, but project mismanagement and horrible design applied which resulted in a chip that would be technologically at home... In 1960s, just done in VLSI - one of the things I recall were issues with actual physical implementation of the memory data paths resulting in horrible IPC