Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> wrote:
I am restoring a TRS80 model 2000 (1983), one of the
rare machines to
use an actual 80186 Intel CPU.
An 80_1_86? Really. I guess I was never aware that there was one like
that ever made. I always thought they jumped from the 8086 to the 80286
CPU.
Do you have any stats on this little baby?
Same as the 8086/8086 except:
slight difference in PUSHF & POPF
has ENTER and LEAVE instructions
Anyone else remember anything else?
-dq
Hi
It had some hardware to decode memory blocks and also
it had 286 like shift instructions. The interrupt table
was assigned at zero memory and had some incompatibilities
with DOS interrupts that were software interrupts.
It often had build in serial as well.
It was primarily intended for the embedded market but
it was used in some of the personal machines.
Dwight