Intel 80x86

The generic term x86 refers to the "CISC" type instruction set of the most commercially successful CPU architecture in the history of personal computing, used in processors from Intel, AMD, VIA, and others. It derived from the model numbers of the first few generations of CPUs, backward compatible with Intel's original 16-bit 8086 of 1978, most of which were ending in "86".
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<processor> (x86) One of the family of Intel microprocessors including the Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486, in a more general sense also Intel 8086, Pentium, Pentium Pro, and Pentium II.
The abbreviation "x86" also includes compatible processors, e.g. from Cyrix or AMD.
(2004-02-27)