June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.
Curiously, the Intel 8086 was conceived as a stopgap while the more technologically ambitious 32-bit iAPX 432 struggled with ...
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In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...