ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet Remember Your First Computer?

Al,

Thanks -- That what I had in mind, because the XT retained the 8088 CPU of the original PC, and while the 8088 is 16-bits internally, it has only an 8-bit external bus.

Some of the PC/XT clones used the 8086 processor, which is equivalent to the 8088 but with a true 16-bit bus.