- When referring to a computer, XT is
short
for eXtended Technology and is the name of the IBM
5160 computer introduced on March 8, 1983.
The XT was the first IBM computer with a a
hard disk drive (10MB with the
option for a 20MB), a 5 1/4" floppy drive, had up to 640kb of memory, used an
Intel 8088 processor,
an eight bit ISA
slot, a serial port, and ran on .
- When referring to any type of
communication, XT is an abbreviation for crosstalk.
- XT is also a type of bus that was introduced in 1982
and had four DMA channels, was 8-bit,
and had a bus speed of 4.77 MHz.
Also see: AT, Bus,
Crosstalk,
Form factor
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