> Was there much software for DOS that actually needed a 286 as a minimum? Unless you decided to run OS/2 or XENIX (which was really the big deal for the 286),

> Was there much software for DOS that actually needed a 286 as a minimum? Unless you decided to run OS/2 or XENIX (which was really the big deal for the 286), the only advantage was you didn't need a special memory card to exceed 640k of memory with most DOS software - so maybe, roomier, faster XT... My first "real" computer was a 286 with 2MB of RAM... and I mostly used the upper 1MB as a RAM disk which made loading the next level on a lot of games much faster.