15 Jan
2002
15 Jan
'02
12:20 a.m.
On January 15, R. D. Davis wrote:
Eh? Rare? Not from what I've seen. Quite a few
of the old Sun
workstations used the 68010 as the CPU, for example, and I've seen
80186 chips used as CPUs used in many devices (not necessarily
computers per se, but used in various computer boards and terminal
servers, etc.). Of course, perhaps we should just let the chip
collectors think that they're rare, and perhaps they'll just be
content with collecting a few of them and leaving the rest alone to
function in working equipment. :-)
Indeed, 80186 chips can be found even on relatively recent Seagate
SCSI hard drives.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
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15 Jan
15 Jan
2:48 p.m.
Indeed, 80186 chips can be found even on relatively
recent Seagate
SCSI hard drives.
Used to see the 80186 on intelligent caching disk controllers
quite a bit. Though popular for smart peripheral controllers, it was
used on only a small number of systems as the main CPU. I've also
got a CPU upgrade card for the XT that uses the 80186. According to
Intel's own datasheet, it was an enhanced 8086-2 with a number of
onboard devices that previously required seperate chips and that it
offered roughly twice the performance of the 8086. The TRS-80 Model
2000 clocked it at 8mhz and was faster than even the early AT's.
Jeff
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