The iAPX-432 was Intel's first 32-bit processor, released in 1981 as a set of 3 integrated circuits. It was to be their main architecture of the 1980s. It was very innovative, and complex, with direct hardware and microcode support for advanced multitasking, memory management, data structures, security, object-oriented and capability-based programming, and multiprocessing with up to 64 processors. Modern operating systems could be implemented in far less program code than for normal processors, because it did so much work internally in hardware. Intel called it the Micromainframe.
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- Intel iAPX 432 Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
- Intel iAPX-432 Micromainframe Includes resource: technical documents, components, packaging, releases, documentation, hardware, software, books, papers, theses, humor, links.
- Eden Node Machine With iAPX-432 processors, monochrome bitmap displays, and furniture-grade oiled wood monitor and keyboard cases. Description, photo.
- Overview of Intel 432, 1975-1985 Short critique and defense, with references; by Mark Smotherman.
- The Intel iAPX 432 By Henry M. Levy; Capability-Based Computer Systems, Digital Press, 1984, ISBN 0932376223. Book chapter, large: history, critique, diagrams. [free]