There's more pipelining in the 8086 than you might expect, with a micro-instruction pipelined across three clock cycles. I explain this in more detail here: htt

There's more pipelining in the 8086 than you might expect, with a micro-instruction pipelined across three clock cycles. I explain this in more detail here: https://www.righto.com/2023/01/the-8086-processors-microcode-pipeline.html https://www.righto.com/2023/01/the-8086-processors-microcode... > RISC is about pipelining more than ISA, really. I hesitate to get into a discussion about what RISC "really" is, but I'll point out that "IS" is the same in "RISC" and "ISA".