> currently there are actually no modern x86 CPUs on the market. This feels like one of the stranger "no true Scotsman" arguments I've ever run across. Even t

> currently there are actually no modern x86 CPUs on the market. This feels like one of the stranger "no true Scotsman" arguments I've ever run across. Even the 8086 had microcode that translated the instructions as generated by the compiler/programmer into the instructions that would be processed: http://www.righto.com/2022/11/how-8086-processors-microcode-engine.html http://www.righto.com/2022/11/how-8086-processors-microcode-... I would love to know what the person who wrote that stackexchange answer would say in response to the question, "so which x86 processors used 'real' x86 cores?" Because from the very beginning of x86, there's been translation of the front-door opcodes into internal opcodes via microcode.