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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Brain-dead 286 - summary
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Date: 9 Mar 90 19:27:28 GMT
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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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