OT, but info needed: RAM uprade

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Tue Dec 29 17:44:28 1998

Tim Hotze wrote:

> But I see your point... but remember, before being used on the IBM PC the
> 8088 had been on the market for 3 years, and probably in OEM's hands a year
> before that.

The 8086 had been around that long, the 8088 was done at IBM's
request -- the marketing concept worked well enough that the later
SX processors were done on purpose.

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