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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: 8088 vs 8086
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.153305.23525@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 15:33:05 GMT
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In article <1722@balrog.ctron.com> dj@ctron.com writes:
>
>I don't recall which was developed first, but my recollection is that
>the original IBM PC had an 8088, and the IBM XT had an 8086.

Nope, the XT was 8088 based as well.  I can't think of any machine that
IBM released that used the 8086, though one of the early PS/2 machines
may have.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu