From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!amd70!pn Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Title: Re: 68k vs. 8086 - (nf) Article-I.D.: amd70.1489 Posted: Tue Feb 15 12:35:42 1983 Received: Fri Feb 18 04:47:47 1983 References: grkermit.295 Are you talking about the 68K vs 286 ads? I understand the 286 is heavily pipelined, accounting for its better performance. In addition, memory management is integrated on-chip, avoiding the delay most 68K systems suffer. A 10 MHz 286 can save the state of a task (all registers), load the state of another task, and resume execution in less than 17 uS. The operating system support, memory protection and management all look rather nice. The only thing I don't like is 64K data segments.