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    3 months ago

    There was the 386DX and significantly cheaper SX - first was full 32 bit, second just 32bit instruction set with smaller external busses.

    Then you could add the math coprocessor. And of course RAM and disks were expensive. 16MB RAM was way above normal for that time.