I ancient times, it would be nice to curl up to a nice scroll ,later on a nice bound book, now we are selecting the background colors on our e-readers. These articles are hard-core good.
I would like to hear much more about the R4200i than the 286.
I have to respect his choice to focus on the 8086 and the pentium, I would think he considers the 80286 a brain dead footnote, interesting as to what when wrong and what went terribly wrong.
I used to teach binary math to kids, and at a county fair I was upstaged by an 11 year old girl who demonstrated both multiplication by powers of two and division of powers of two.
The 286 could process twice as many instructions per clock as an 8086. According to Wikipedia, an uplift similar to the 80486 and the Pentium over their predecessors.
So that is wikipedias "opinion" which any one could edit. I should edit that to reflect where the performance came from. Always check sources. ( The reference comes from intel386.
com)