80386 Early Start Memory Access

When Intel designed the 80386, they gave it a trick for hiding memory latency: Early Start. Instead of waiting for an instruction to reach its memory micro-op, the 386 begins the next instruction’s address work — effective address, segment relocation, the bus cycle — in the last cycle of the current…

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