Intel iAPX432
Intel iAPX432
Posted Oct 8, 2023 14:03 UTC (Sun) by jem (subscriber, #24231)In reply to: Intel iAPX432 by CChittleborough
Parent article: A local root vulnerability in glibc
To be precise, the project was started in 1976, and the product was launched in 1981. Meanwhile, to defend against competitors like Motorola and Zilog, Intel introduced the 8086 as a stopgap solution. We all know what happened after that.
From the Wikipedia article: "The iAPX 432 instructions have variable length, between 6 and 321 bits." Maybe partially as a reaction to this madness, something else was emerging from Berkeley: RISC. Roughly at the same time, in popular music, psychedelic progressive rock was replaced by punk rock.