[Gllug] Small rant

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:19:08AM +0000, Chris Hunter wrote:
> The wackiest was the 80186 - utterly incompatible with /anything/ else!

Ummm?  The 80186 was an 8086 with a few extra instructions (the same
extra instructions that the V20/V30 had).  It was mainly used for
embedded applications - I remember having a disk controller which had
a '186 on board.

Perhaps you mean the i860, which was a seriously cool RISC chip for
its time, but never particularly took off outside some specialised
high performance / educational niches, and like the i432 had demanding
compiler requirements which were rarely met.

Rich.

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