More old stuff incoming

[Grant Taylor]

On 12/19/2018 10:45 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> 80186?

I really thought it was 8x86 where the x was 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.

But looking at a picture of a CPU online I see that it was 8086, 80186, 
80286, 80386, 80486.  #TodayILearned....

> "xcvb" is wrong. It's an 8086.

ACK

> The BBC Master had a '186:
> 
> There was an RM Nimbus too.
> 
> They didn't.
> 
> 8088, 8086, 80286, 80386DX, then 80386SX, 80486, Pentium.

ACK

I think IBM had some special things that were modifications.  Supposedly 
my model 70 is a special 386 instruction set that has some hybrid CPU in 
it.  I don't remember the specifics.  IBM was fab'ing chips at the time 
and had licenses to Intel's IP.  So they created a 386 that was somehow 
more than / different from a 386. Maybe it was a crippled 486 that only 
had the bus of the 386.  I don't recall.



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