The birthday's technically not until this Sunday, but if you're going to post a look back at the x86 architecture on the Friday, might as well go ahead on the Thursday to get more views, right? Happy early 30^th bday, x86.

"Perhaps as gut-wrenching as the RISC threat was a crisis that began in the summer of 1994, when Intel test engineers discovered a tiny flaw in the floating-point division circuitry of its new Pentium chip."