Re: 8088 vs 8086

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From: sorrow
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 02:49

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Time out...the first PC came with a casette port.  True.
The first PC came with 256K?  WRONG.

The first PCs (I mean the FIRST) had 16K on the motherboard, expandable
to 64K.  Later ones allowed expansion to 640K I believe.

Brian
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"Seamus, that's my dog...I saw her today at the reception...sorry, sixTEEN
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..anymore of that plutonium nyborg?....there can be only ONE!....like a 
finger pointing to the moon....ease the seat back...one day closer to death
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