11 Nov
2006
11 Nov
'06
11:24 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
The original 5170's were 6MHz products. I'd
heard that IBM
originally intended to ship 8 MHz units (certainly 8MHz 80286 CPUs
were available in 1986), but the idea of shipping a system that was
at least 5 times faster than the 5160 was nixed by marketing--I don't
know if the story's really true, but it would be typical of IBM of
the time.
An 8MHz 80286 is nowhere near 5x as fast as a 4.77MHz 8088. 2.5x, sure,
but not 5x.
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