You might be interested in this Computer History Museum oral history of Gary Davidian, who among other things (1) worked on the "rival project" from Soul (2) wa

You might be interested in this Computer History Museum oral history of Gary Davidian, who among other things (1) worked on the "rival project" from Soul (2) was hired by NEC to bolster their lawsuit defense by writing microcode for the Intel 8086 (3) wrote the 680x0 emulator Apple launched their PowerPC line with. Transcript: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/09/102740488-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/09/102781078-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Go9D1kLNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Go9D1kLNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVEKt_H3FsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVEKt_H3FsI There's lots of interesting stuff from this era in the CHM's oral histories.