Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present

Intensely detail-oriented history of microprocessors. The arrival of the Intel 8086 is referred to as "the Great Dark Cloud." There's also a section on oddball µP's:

Section Seven: Weird and Innovative Chips

* Part I: Intel 432, Extraordinary complexity (1980) . .
* Part II: Rekursiv, an object oriented processor .
* Part III: MISC M17: Casting Forth in Silicon[1] (pre 1988?) . .
* Part IV: AT&T CRISP/Hobbit, CISC amongst the RISC (1987) . . . .
* Part V: T-9000, parallel computing (1994) . . . . . .
* Part VI: Patriot Scientific ShBoom: from Forth to Java (April 1996) . .
* Part VII: Sun picoJava - not another language-specific processor! (October 1997) . .
* Part VIII: Imsys Cjip - embedded WISC (Writable Instruction Set Computer) (Mid 2000) .