The 8086 was a stop-gap solution until iAPX432 was ready.
The 80286 was a stop-gap solution until iAPX432 was ready.
The 80386 started as a stop-gap solution until iAPX432 was ready, until someone higher up finally decided to kill that one.
The 80286 was a stop-gap solution until iAPX432 was ready.
The 80386 started as a stop-gap solution until iAPX432 was ready, until someone higher up finally decided to kill that one.
I'd never heard of it myself, and reading that Wikipedia page it seems to have been a collection of every possible technology that didn't pan out in IC-language-OS codesign.
Meanwhile, in Britain a few years later in 1985, a small company and a dedicated engineer, Sophie Wilson, decided that what they needed was a RISC processor that was as plain and straightforward as possible ...