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From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC Ditto II -- speed?
Message-ID: <4013@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 19:50:26 GMT
References: <103@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <103@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>,
cs163afu@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Some call me...Tim) says:
> 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.

	The IBM PC AT has always had an 80286.  That was the whole point
of releasing the new machine, the new CPU was faster (few clock cycles
per instruction and a faster clock) and addressed more memory (16 meg vs
1 meg).  IBM didn't sell an 8086 machine till the PS2s (the low end units
are 8086s).




				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM