Replying to a message of Glen McNabb to Darryl Gregorash:
 GM> See what happens when you become an NC, your mind starts to
 GM> go.
In my case, when they finally realized my mind was gone, they made me an NC 

 GM> Then something(s) floats to the surface of the tub water. :)
 GM> Actually, I was quite impressed with the 80186/88
 GM> processors. I really like the pusha and popa instructions
Nice little toy, but I preferred the NEC V20/30 myself.. too bad Intel never 
made their bit manipulations opcode compatible with the NEC chips.
 GM> chip for that purpose. The last and best XT I ever had was
 GM> a Hedaka 12mhz 286 XT. It came with all the software to
I'm not familiar with that particular machine, but I do know of a couple more 
XTs that used 286 CPUs. Someone like Acer or some such little clone company 
made one of them, and that started that particular bunch of dudes on the road 
to what they are today.. it was definitely a rinky-dink little company that 
is a big name today.
 GM> take advantage of it's chipset. It could cache the hard
 GM> drive and xms without loosing it through a reboot. I would
 GM> also outrun a 286 AT at the same speed.
Well, that particular one sounds like it had a cache that compares (relative 
to the CPU of course) with the caches available today.. any kind of cache 
would blow the sox off an AT that had no caching at all :)
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