Have you started power glitching or using an epitaxial beam to introduce faults in real hardware to confirm your findings?
Are you in communication with https://stevemorse.org/8086/index.html ?
Are you in communication with https://stevemorse.org/8086/index.html ?
This is a book I could read in the flesh instead of online. Getting answers to questions like why did they do this, was it a constraint of the day or some other reason could be elucidating.