the venerable 80186 (and 80188)

There is a proverb in England about grandmothers and sucking eggs :-) More seriously, my e-mail address and 'organisation' refer to a Philips P850, which is a 16 bit minicomputer (OK, thar particular model ahs an 8 bit ALU, but it appears to be 16 bits to the programmer) dating from 1970. I have several other machines in the range (P851, which uses Philips custom bitslice chips (SPALU == Scratch Pad and Arithmetic Logic Unit) , P854, which uses AMD2900 series chips and has an MMU, and what appears to be a P850-series single-chip processor, maybe a P853 CPU board). These machines are not common (to put it mildly!), but they do exist. I've got (somewhere) a Philips word processor system -- a large case containing a CRT display and a pair of 5.25" drives, with a CPU board (a pair of Z80s IIRC) at the back and a separate keyboard. -tony