who built the first 8086/88 based puter?

I was the technical editor for Cadence Mag in those days, and reviewed a lot of hardware. As a hardware reviewer for a monthly AutoCAD news rag, I reviewed and collected a lot of early poweruser systems and graphic co-processors. Redraw and regen times on large drawings was all everyone in the CAD world cared about in the early days. I had a 386/16 ARL several months before Compaq could get the Deskpro 386 to the point they could they sent me one to review. Still have my original ARL in storage. Had to send the Deskpro back after the eval period but I picked one up a few years later. I think it is still in attic. I am sure the Zenith Z100 was the first 8085/8088 dual processor production system that ran both processors at the same time. It booted both CP/M and Z/DOS (msdos), CP/M 86 came along sometime later for it. Depending on the OS you booted, it would use the other processor for I/O. Serial #2 from the lab complete with a ton of blue and yellow wire mods is packed away up in the attic along with a later production system. SD Systems had the first multy processor Z80 system using the second processor to control a 4 port intelligent buffered I/O card. along with the memory mapped console it supported provided 5 users 4 serial monitors and the console. When Morrows came out with the M26 harddrive it was the king, till Altos came out with a low cost production system a few years later. It used an early banked switched 64k card that when stacked 4 deep support. 5 banks of 48k with 16k common for MPM. Still have my original in the basement Not sure where the M26 ended up, though :( The First 8086 I worked on was intel multibus, ran the MDBS database operating system. I think it was originally to run on an IBM Series 1. It was an database application called LISA for law enviroment. First 80186 I saw was a card for an IBM pc about a year before the AT came out. It was all so long ago :) later Bob Bradlee On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:58:18 -0800 (PST), Chris M wrote: