*** Rich Veraa wrote in a message to Scott McNay:
RV> The PC was _supposed_  to use an 8086, and was originally
RV> designed on that basis.  But as IBM started gearing up for
RV> production, they discovered that reliable sources of 16-bit
RV> peripherals did not yet exist.  In a desperate move to meet
RV> the announced release deadline, Intel cobbled together a
RV> half-assed version of the 8086 with an b-bit bus: the 8088.
Since they were building a new computer, probably the ONLY peripherals 
(cards) were the ones that THEY made.
Of course, there was the computer that the IBM PC was designed after, but I 
have no idea how compatible the IBM PC was with it.
--Scott.
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