80386 Multiplication and Division

When Intel released the 80386 in October 1985, it marked a watershed moment for personal computing. The 386 was the first 32-bit x86 processor, increasing the register width from 16 to 32 bits and vastly expanding the address space compared to its predecessors. This wasn&#x27;t just an incremental upgrade—it was the foundation that would carry the PC architecture for decades to come.