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I'm not even sure why you would point this out. I'm also quite certain there were also no USB flash drives, SD card support, Wifi networking and e-ink displays

• pjmlp 1y ago
  What does clone mean?
  • ssl-3 1y ago
    It means the author is fond of just making shit up. "I built an XT 'clone' [that doesn't even target the same CPU as an XT]"
    • roywashere 1y ago
      Clone meant, at least back in the day, that it was compatible with software written for the IBM XT. There were many clones with more ram, 3.5” disk drives, or better CPU (NEC V20) than the original IBM XT but they all ran MS DOS and WordPerfect and Accolade Test Drive and any other software you would expect so they were considered ‘XT clones’
      • ssl-3 1y ago
        Sure. I remember that marketplace very well. And until a couple of days ago, I never heard anyone mention an "XT clone" as being an emulated 80186 on an ESP32 with almost none of the IO or expansion capabilities of an XT. That appears to be a new usement of the term; an invention, if you will, or a perversion if you won't. (I can emulate an XT with my pocket supercomputer. It's fun to play with that kind of thing sometimes. But to call it a "clone" is going too far.)