A couple of weeks ago I went to see a lecture by Harvard prof Richard Tedlow on how Intel changed the industry with the launch of it’s 386 processor. I wasn’t sure this was going to be all that ...

The 80386 was — arguably — Intel’s first modern CPU. The 8086 was commercially successful, but the paged memory model was stifling. The 80286 also had a protected mode, which differed from the 386’s. ...