*** Darryl Gregorash wrote in a message to Scott McNay:
 DG>> There were many 8086-based machines, but were not popular
 DG>> relative to the 88 systems because they required 16-bit
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 DG>> interface cards in a day when the 16-bit interface card
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 DG>> was
 SM> Negative; they required that the motherboard be designed to
 SM> support it; before the 286, most manufacturers didn't want
 SM> to go to the extra expense of designing the more complex
 SM> boards that this required, when they could get nearly the
 SM> same performance with the 8088.
DG> Like I said, there were many 86-based machines. After that,
DG> all you said was what I said.. of course the motherboard had
DG> to be designed for it, you cannot drop a CPU with a 16-bit
DG> data bus interface into a motherboard with an 8-bit data bus
DG> and expect anything to work.
You said above that the 8086 machines REQUIRED 16-bit cards, which is untrue, 
unless you were accidentally using that term to refer to the motherboard.
--Scott.
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