If Intel only had retroactively updated the 8088/8086 line with the “8086-2” ISA (there are 8086-1 and 8086-2 chips, but they’re not related to the instructions set). The Z80 series had an ...

The 8086 instruction set is not the only instruction set that modern x86 supports. There are dozens of instruction sets from the well-known floating-point, SSE, ...

Intel releases X86S instruction set version 1.2, ... In its previous blog, Intel claimed that remnants from the 8086 and 386 eras have become unnecessary in our 64-bit world.

Originally introduced in 1978 with the 8086 CPU, the original x86 ISA featured only eight 16-bit general-purpose registers, ... It expands the entire x86 instruction set, ...