> Going back to at least the i432, ... “mainframe envy” Direct quote from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w

> Going back to at least the i432, ... “mainframe envy” Direct quote from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 """ Intel's iAPX432 was intended to be Intel's major design for the 1980s. Unlike the 8086, which was designed the following year as a successor to the 8080, the iAPX 432 was a radical departure from Intel's previous designs meant for a different market niche... Referred to as a "micromainframe", the iAPX 432 was designed to be programmed entirely in high-level languages. """ Folklore describes the 8086 as a stop-gap design, an extension of the popular (but tiny) 8080 CPU. The "real" design project at Intel was the i432, which supported object-oriented programming and was THE FUTURE OF ALL COMPUTING. A cut-down version of the object oriented support was carried over into the x86 architecture, in its segmented memory model and page-description registers. You're welcome.