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I had a Compaq Deskpro with an 8086. Noticeably faster than that XT. I bought it used, durt cheap when everyone else was upgrading to 286s. It worked quite well for quite some time. And the AT&T 6300 used an 8086 and the Toshiba T1200 had an 80C86. 8088's were definitely more popular among the cost-conscious, but it seemed after a couple years the clone manufacturers were making 8086 based systems for about the same price as IBM XTs.


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