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From: Robin Faichney
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:02

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Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@nospam.yahoo.com.spam> wrote:

> I took apart one of these things one day, just to see what circuitry they
> have inside them. I found an AMD 80186 embedded processor inside. If you
> don't know what an 80186 (or a 186 for short) is, then you're probably not
> alone. This was a processor that is an x86 processor, just like the original
> 8086 and 8088 processors. It came after the 8086-generation, and just before
> the 286 generation. It was never used inside PCs, it was always used as an
> embedded processor.

I seem to recall the first PC I ever laid hands on, the RM Nimbus, had
a 186.  This was in 1986, funnily enough.  (By my reckoning, the P4 takes
us to 986.)  Trying to use the Windows 1.0 SDK with RM Pascal was fun!

-- 
Robin Faichney
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