Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Norton SI Computer Name Message-ID: <54800@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 25 Mar 89 17:32:19 GMT References: <2410@bucsb.UUCP> <2991@hound.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Distribution: na Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 16 In article <2410@bucsb.UUCP>, crewman@bucsb.UUCP (JJS) writes: | | I've a Wyse pc286 model 2108 (8MHz '286), and the Norton SI utility | lists the computer name as "IBM XT/286". What is that? I thought | that the IBM PC/XT had an 8088 processor. Shouldn't the SI list the | computer name as an AT? | The IBM XT/286 was the precursor to the IBM-AT: it was an XT with a 286 processor. +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs.bitnet uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | internet: spolsky@cs.yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ #include