--- Jason McBrien <jbmcb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
A couple more oddities-
The Tandy 2000 was one of the few 80186 based
clones, and ran well behaved
MS-DOS apps, though it had somewhat oddball video
hardware, keyboard and
serial port setup. It required a custom version of
DOS, and MS even ported
Xenix to it.
Make that EWB'ed (Extremely Well Behaved). It was
largely BIOS and DOS function call compatible, but
that was all.
There was at least 1 186 mobo/puter from a company
called Computer Products United. Said to be 100%
compatible (not possible if they utilized the 186's
onboard peripherals).
The Orchid PC-Turbo release 1 used a 186. Anyone have
experience with that? There is a patent document
regarding this device here:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4799150.html
My Ampro LB/PC has a V40. Never ran much on it, but
does that chip pose the same problems a *real* 186
would?
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