From: joemonk64@gmail.com   
      
   > If Intel thinks the 8086 was a kludge, that's up to them.    
   > But I disagree with Intel. It was the correct technical    
   > solution.   
      
   Intel does in fact think the 8086/8088 was a kludge.   
      
   Post 8080/8085, we were supposed to get the iAPX 432. However, when the chip   
   wars happened, the iAPX 432 had some bugs that needed to be worked out. So,   
   they produced the 8086/88 as a stopgap.   
      
   "The iAPX 432 was referred to as a "micromainframe", designed to be programmed   
   entirely in high-level languages. The instruction set architecture was also   
   entirely new and a significant departure from Intel's previous 8008 and 8080   
   processors as the iAPX    
   432 programming model is a stack machine with no visible general-purpose   
   registers. It supports object-oriented programming, garbage collection and   
   multitasking as well as more conventional memory management directly in   
   hardware and microcode. Direct    
   support for various data structures is also intended to allow modern operating   
   systems to be implemented using far less program code than for ordinary   
   processors. Intel iMAX 432 is a discontinued operating system for the 432,   
   written entirely in Ada, and    
   Ada was also the intended primary language for application programming. In   
   some aspects, it may be seen as a high-level language computer architecture."   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432   
      
   Joe   
      
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