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bt455s39@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Carmen Hardina) writes:

>In article <1990Dec7.145839.2703@mentor.gandalf.ca> dcarr@mentor.gandalf.ca (Dave Carr) writes:
>>Talk about people unclear on the concept.  The 80186(8) were intended for the EMBEDDED
>>market.  We use the 80186 extensively in our comm products.  
>[....]
>>The only vendor I know that tried one in a PC was Tandy !  For the job it was designed for,
>>I stand behind the 80186 any day !
>[....]

>SCI used the 80186 as the primary CPU in their SCI 1000 Tower system a few
>years ago.  The system had a backplane and was not a peecee.  It ran AT&T
>UNIX System III quite well.  To this day it will smoke a 286 peecee running
>UNIX in a multiuser environment.

Research Machines (RM) in the UK used the 186 in their original Nimbus machine.
It wasn't a "true compatible", although it did use MS-DOS - some of the H/W
was non standard.

3Com used the 186 as the basis for the older 3Server range of dedicated LAN
servers. These are still in use on a large number of sites running 3+ Share
(DOS based server platform), despite the best efforts of 3Com to get people
to trade up to the 386!.
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