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We all knew it, but it is better to hear from the horses mouth. Both Intels Vice President and the Microprocessor Marketing Manager back from the 80ies admitting that the segmented addressing and the entire x86 series up to the 80386 were an unusually weak design and many competitors at the time were better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLzBYfNhRF8&feature=player_detailpage#t=827s Also some parts earlier.

Truth at last. Amiiiga!

Who cares.