1 Jun
2014
1 Jun
'14
4:48 p.m.
On 06/01/2014 04:17 PM, David Riley wrote:
They were really popular as embedded CPUs. The
cofounders of my company came from TTC, which did
make a lot of use of the '186/'188. They don't have
much nice to say about the development environment,
though.
Embedded environments certainly seem to be the place to find
"interesting" CPUs.
I was surprised to see an 80C188EB used on a SCSI interface for a Cipher
tape drive, along with a pair of Z8002s--all on the same board.
I've seen a 6502 used in a QIC tape drive. At least one model of Diablo
dot-matrix printer used a couple of Rockwell PPS-8s.
Laser printers certainly used to have some interesting CPUs buried in
them. I've seen 68K family CPUs as well as the occasional NS32016 chip.
If you just bin old laser printers, you don't know what you're missing
by not taking a peek inside.
--Chuck