> If you would have told me in the 1980's we would still be using x86 based chips in 2024 I would have laughed at you. In the late 1970s, Gordon Moore believed

> If you would have told me in the 1980's we would still be using x86 based chips in 2024 I would have laughed at you. In the late 1970s, Gordon Moore believed that their next ISA would last the lifetime of the company. Now, technically, he thought their next ISA would be in the 8800. But it was such a drawn out failure they came up with the 8086 in an emergency 3-week sprint. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3282307 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3282307