*** Martijn van de Streek wrote in a message to Scott McNay:
 SM> As I recall hearing (reading ;), the 8086 indeed came out before the 
8088,
 SM> but it was never used in an XT or PC.
MvdS> Well, I have one here. (see below :)
As I said to Auke, I meant to say *IBM* XT or PC.
MvdS> I've seen some of them (I even have a portable IBM [portable
MvdS> in the sense of 'is twas made to be transported',
MvdS> 1mx1mx30cm] with a 8086).
Hmmm... interesting... but was it an XT or a PC, or something else?   I 
hadn't considered that one of those; I was thinking of ordinary desktop 
systems.
MvdS> It is true that there are only a few 8086s, because IBM went
MvdS> to the cheaper (and later also faster than 4,77MHz) 8088s
I suspect that we are passing each other in this conversation...
MvdS> The processor reported to exist, but which I've never seen
MvdS> is a 80186. It must have been succeeded by the 286 too soon.
I've never seen one either, probably because it was designed for embedded 
systems.
--Scott.
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