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From: davel@vision.UUCP (Dave Lockwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IBM <--> Atari
Message-ID: <1152@vision.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 90 17:00:28 GMT
References: <1990Jul30.230210.11548@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: davel@vision.UUCP (Dave Lockwood)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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In article <1990Jul30.230210.11548@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> schultzd@kira.uucp (David Schultz) writes:
>Now that the Atari <--> Amiga bashing has changed to IBM <--> Atari
>bashing, does anyone know of an Intel 80x86 based system that is NOT
>in an IBM or ibm clone?  (Of course, Compaq was using an 8088 in the
>early days, not an 8086).

My previous employers - Systime Computers - had a range of machines: the 300,
the 500 and the 2000 which where all based on the 8086. They were all multi-
user machines running Systime's own operating system MPS. I still have a
300 in my garage - 1Mb of memory, 10Mb of disk and four serial ports.

About a couple of hundred of this range out there still in service.

Without exception, these systems were completely non-PC architecture and bore
no more than the relationship created from the fact that the CPU was an 8086.


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