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The 8080 and the 8088 but no 386? No P6? This list isn't very well balanced. The 386 revolutionized computing. It introduced an architecture that is still aliv
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
The 8080 and the 8088 but no 386? No P6?
This list isn't very well balanced. The 386 revolutionized computing. It introduced an architecture that is still alive today and held market dominance for over 20 years (which is more than half the duration of the micro-computer age itself). And the P6 (Pentium Pro) architecture erased the old CISC/RISC boundary, enabling x86 code to run seamlessly on effectively state-of-the art RISC cores, extending the lifetime of the architecture tremendously.