[Gllug] Small rant

Henrik Morsing henrik at morsing.cc
Sat Nov 12 16:32:36 UTC 2005


> 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.

The 80186 was actually used in the Piccoline which was a non-PC 
desktop computer made by Regnecentralen in Denmark in the early eighties. 
It used Concurrent CP/M as it's OS.

Regards,
Henrik Morsing


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