@jeffowski A teenaged Barnes & Noble employee awkwardly shuffles up to you, pressing a copy of "The 120 Days of Sodom" into your hands.

"It's from that gentleman over there."

You glance in the indicated direction. A fedora is tipped.

Here's a lovely another lovely zoom of the 80286.

What its exact function is, I couldn't tell you, as I haven't studied the die that thoroughly and let's face it, I'm no @kenshirriff

If I had to hazard a guess, it looks like an 8-bit memory, perhaps part of the prefetch or instruction queue. No real idea though.

In any case, it's pretty.