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From: danw@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM (Daniel E. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC Ditto II -- speed?
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Date: 8 May 89 00:16:39 GMT
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In article <537@TSfR.UUCP>, usenet@TSfR.UUCP (usenet) writes:
> 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.

   This may be a shock to you but the PC AT was around long before the
80286 was created.  The AT started out with the 8086 and then went to
the 80186 for a greater clock speed.  Only in recent years has the 80286
been used in the clones.

Dan Wilson