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Re: Re; XT vs PC + Hard Disk Add-on - (nf) [message #76437] Wed, 29 May 2013 23:55
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Originally posted by: grogers@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Message-ID: <5100021@uiucdcsb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 14:31:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 14:31:00 1984
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uiucdcsb!grogers    Sep  4 13:31:00 1984

I think it goes like this: When the PC was first introduced the socket
was on the processor board but IBM gave no official purpose for the socket.
It was after about a year that IBM announced the 8087 option and at that
time the speculation about what the socket was for ended.

Greg Rogers
grogers@uiucdcs.UUCP
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