Uh... The 386 was designed on 11/780 and inherited lots of its protected-mode features from VAX architecture manuals that came with the many 780s installed at I

Uh... The 386 was designed on 11/780 and inherited lots of its protected-mode features from VAX architecture manuals that came with the many 780s installed at Intel design in SC and Hillsboro at that time, but other than this... yes the VAX was a "very similar" architecture to a 386. Thanks for noticing.