Hi Scott,
On 23 Dec 97, 03:28, you wrote to Martijn van de Streek
 SM> As I recall hearing (reading ;), the 8086 indeed came out before
 SM> the 8088, but it was never used in an XT or PC.
Sigh. There were XT clones that had an 8086. E.g. the AT&T 6300 (not the 
6300+ !!!) which was essentially identical to the Olivetti M24.
And the 8086 had a slightly larger prefetch queue than the 8088 -- which made 
it possible to use software to detect the difference. Dirty trick though: 
self modifying code ...
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