"We don't care, we don't have to, we're Intel."

Plus, DEC managed to move all of its VAX users to Alpha through the simple expedient of no longer making VAXen, so I wonder if HP (which by that point had swallowed what used to be DEC) thought it could repeat that trick and sunset x86, which Intel has wanted to do for very nearly as long as the x86 has existed. See also: Intel i860

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860

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kruador 3 days ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	pjc50 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 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 ...