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Re: News Release - Pentium - "INTEL UNVEILS NAME FOR ITS FIFTH GENERATION COMPATIBLE MICROPROCESSOR"

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From: Kenneth Cleary
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 06:52
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>Well, has there ever really been a computer made with the 80186?
>(well, one that was sold comercially.)  As far as I can remember
>(which isn't much) they're used as "co-processors" like on a
>hard disk cache.
>Jeff

I probably should not admit to actually owning one of these terribly useful
beasts; but the Tandy 2000 was an 80186-based MS-DOS clone.  
It has the annoying characteristic of a non-ISA expansion bus.  
(Anyone want to buy it :-)
-Ken Cleary.
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Subject: Re: News Release - Pentium - "INTEL UNVEILS NAME FOR ITS FIFTH GENERATION COMPATIBLE MICROPROCESSOR"
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