Its nice that the 286 gets some love here too, that chip was really underrated considering how much better its IPC was vs its predecessors, which is largely the

Its nice that the 286 gets some love here too, that chip was really underrated considering how much better its IPC was vs its predecessors, which is largely the main ding against the 386. Running existing 16 bit code its IPC was basically the same as the 286, and given its initial 12Mhz clock rate, was pretty underwhelming. It wasn't until the clock really started to scale and people started using the 32-bit capabilities that it was anything more than an expensive dos/286 competitor.