*updating* 8088's

[Eric J Korpela]

> Nope, the early 386 machines were pretty lame.  Anyone else have the
> same experience with the SX vis-a-vis a 286?

That's an artifact of the design method for early cheap 386
motherboards, which consisted of a single step.  Take a 286
motherboard and double the data bus width.  It resulted in a 386 that
spent all of its time waiting for the next memory access.

Decent (not cheap) motherboards with a significant amount of cache and
interleaved memory were much better.