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Article #43856Re: Brain-dead 286 - summary
From: Phil Ngai
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 19:27
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 19:27
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In article <9982@portia.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
|The 286
|also does not support memory interleaving systems, so for >16MHz, you will
|be forced to have wait states on main memory. A 20MHz 386 can still work at
You can, and people have, built 286 systems with cache. There is nothing
special about a 286 that prevents you from using cache with it. You can,
and people have, also built 286 systems with memory interleaving.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!pepsi!phil From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Brain-dead 286 - summary Message-ID: <29444@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 9 Mar 90 19:27:28 GMT References: <8681@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <29405@amdcad.AMD.COM> <38299@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <9982@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Distribution: usa Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 14