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From: usenet@TSfR.UUCP (usenet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC Ditto II -- speed?
Summary: What's an AT?
Message-ID: <537@TSfR.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 89 01:23:29 GMT
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Reply-To: orc@TSfR.UUCP (David L. Parsons)
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In article <103@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> cs163afu@sdcc10.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Some call me...Tim) writes:
>The initial release of the IBM PC AT contained a 6Mhz 8086
>processor.  It was only later that they upgraded to 8Mhz and still
>later the 286 processor.

 Wrong.  The IBM PC AT started out at a 6mhz 80286 - IBM only upped the
clock to 8mhz when everybody else on the planet was running 8mhz/10mhz/12mhz
on their '286 boxes.

   -david parsons
   -orc@pell.uucp