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It is unreasonable because you redefine "Microprocessor" in a way that the 8086, the one that made the word popular, isn't one anymore.

Surely odd, but tolerable. But what is worse that people will read your article, think the MMU is what makes a microprocessor. And upon hearing that the 8086 has no MMU, they will deny that it is a microprocessor. Which would be a logical conclusion from your article.

I listed some other words here that suffer from similar issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30278936



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