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"The first PC I used was an XT-286; the precursor to the AT." It was actually a smaller case version of the AT.


I believe it had a different cpu (6mhz vs 8mhz) and different a motherboard (16bit vs 8bit).


You are correct about the clock speed, but not the bus difference.

"In 1986, the XT/286 (IBM 5162) with a 6 MHz Intel 80286 processor was introduced. This system actually turned out to be faster than the ATs of the time using 8 MHz 286 processors due to the fact that it had zero wait state RAM that could move data more quickly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT


"(16bit vs 8bit)"

False.




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