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Maybe just me, but this sounds pretty revisionist wrt 'most important'. If the 8086/8088 hadn't stumbled into ubiquity via the IBM PC, there probably never wou
by kjs3 3y ago
Maybe just me, but this sounds pretty revisionist wrt 'most important'. If the 8086/8088 hadn't stumbled into ubiquity via the IBM PC, there probably never would have been an 80286 much less an 80386. YMMV.
That said...the 386 was a world-changing engineering achievement, and as much as I think in a just and fair timeline the 68030 would have taken over the world ( :-) ), you can't discount what Intel did.
- Narishma 3y agoThe 386 maybe, but the 286 was already completed by the time the IBM PC launched if not before.
- kjs3 3y agoThe IBM PC launched in mid 1981, which means the 8088 was fixed in the design at least, what, a year before if not more? The 286 shipped in 1984. Are you saying the 286 was a completed design in, say, 82-83, or that Intel was saying "this is what we think the 286 will look like" in that timeframe?
- Narishma 3y agoThe 286 launched in early 1982, just a few months after the IBM PC. 1984 is when IBM put it in the PC AT.