Meantime, the 80286, the forgotten man in all the excitement over the new Intel chips, gets a lifeline from Harris Corp, which, as reported briefly (CI No 1,154) has come out with a racey 25MHz version of the part: as well as being much cheaper at $142 for 1,000-up, the chip is claimed by Harris to run 16-bit code as much as 20% faster than a 25MHz 80386 runs it – and as perhaps 95% of code on personal computers is still 16-bit, that suggests the chip is worth a look; and where do you get 25MHz support chips? Austek Microsystems Inc in Mountain View, California has a 25MHz cache controller chip, and Chips & Technologies Inc in Milpitas has CHIPsets that run at 25MHz.
