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From: pa2183@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC/AT on Atari News Group
Keywords: TA/CP
Message-ID: <1495@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>
Date: 11 May 89 23:26:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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A recent line has been debating the origins of the IBM PC/AT. I have
had one since 1984. It ran at 6MHZ and had an iAPX-286 processor.
Since it takes approx. 2-3 years to bring a new product out, I
presume that early prototypes (ca. 1981) had only 8086 chips. For
those who remember, Intel was promoting it's iAPX-432 Wunder Chip.
The 286 was a fall out of that disaster.

What this means for the Atari user, I don't know.