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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by ido on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @02:07PM (#2097244)
I believe it had a different cpu (6mhz vs 8mhz) and different a motherboard (16bit vs 8bit).
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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by jmaygarden on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:45AM (#2143399)
You are correct about the clock speed, but not the bus difference.

"In 1986, the XT/286 (IBM 5162) with a 6 MHz Intel 80286 processor was introduced. This system actually turned out to be faster than the ATs of the time using 8 MHz 286 processors due to the fact that it had zero wait state RAM that could move data more quickly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT

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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by yuhong on Sunday January 16, 2011 @12:11AM (#2108727)
"(16bit vs 8bit)"

False.

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