19 May
1998
19 May
'98
9:24 a.m.
<Some non-clones (such as the DEC Rainbow) ran Windows; basically DEC
<wrote or contracted for the device drivers necessary to make it work.
<I don't recall whether Windows 2.x ran on the 'bow; I didn't have access
<to one during that timeframe.
I know 2.11 was released by DRC for the Rainbow. I still have media
with that on it (used as blanks).
However the cpu was still intel (8088). I think winders didn't run on
the 80186(8) used in one of the tandys and a few oddballs. mostly because
the 186 has some on board peripherals (DMA and interrupts) that were not
PCclone compatable. The '188 cpu was basically 8088/V20
Allison