More old stuff incoming

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 18:52, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

:-o

No no, never.

But there was the i860 and i960 as well, remember. And the iAPX-432.

There's more to life than x86.

> 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.

SLC series? 386SLC & 486SLC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_386SLC

I think IBM also rebadged or fabbed these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix_Cx486SLC


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