Unrelated to TFA: everytime I see numbers like 386, 486, etc. I’m instantly triggered. Even more than for powers of two. Growing up with computers really „does a number“ on you.
the only persons that did pointed it out is my best friend and his sister which for almost a decade my beloved wife
Your question makes me feel old :)
It took off and spawned its own line, the 80168, 80286, etc. Eventually, the 80 was dropped and they became known as the 286, 386, 486. Even the Pentium processor was really a brand name for the 586.
Every Core i7 is an x86.
Pentium (technically 586), released in 1993, is what I think of when I think of CPUs in the 90s. “n”86 has the 1980s association.
Generational divide, here.