Overclocking ATs

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> How is that possible?  The 386 improved many instructions to run in 
>> fewer clocks...
>>
> Strange, but apparently true in some cases: 
> 
> http://www.intersil.com/data/an/an111.pdf

That's not really a fair comparison, since that product note is from 
1997, long after the time period we're talking about.

Doing some more thinking, it's possible that some 386 PCs are hampered 
by memory wait states more than some implementations of 286 PCs.
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