1 Oct
1998
1 Oct
'98
4:22 p.m.
3. Some AT boards will not fit into it.
Actually, no AT boards will fit into it. Although it used the AT's 286 CPU,
Not true, I sold them and used them and they worked. Too many years for
details
but the only ones that did not work are those that were to high for the
XT case.
it retained the XT's 8-bit bus, and was limited to
640K RAM (no 16-bit RAM
Also not true. Mine has 1 meg.
motherboard RAM was 8- or 16-bit). The XT-286 failed,
not just because of
I guess the definition of failure is relative.
It was a very successful machine for IBM.
its limited expansion versus the AT, but due to
competition from the Turbo
Other than full height boards it took all of them, had just as many slots
and bays and was faster
than the 6 mhz AT and since it had no wait states faster than the 8-10mhz
wait state clones.
XT (8-10MHz 8088/NECV20) market, which had similar
performance.
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