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From: rowan@parsec.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 80186 in a TRS80 - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 4-Dec-83 04:41:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  4 04:41:43 1983
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parsec!rowan    Dec  2 09:25:00 1983

As remembered from an article in the WSJ 12/01/83

	The Tandy TRS80 Model 2000 (with an Intel 80186) will have two
to three time the performance of a PC, will be software compatible with
the PC (what ever that means) and will cost about 2/3s as much for
similarly configured units.  The key point is Tandy is going after
corporate sales.  They left the Radio Shack name out of the press
release.  The Model 2000 will be sold in Radio Shack Computer Centers
however.

	One interesting point the article made was that Tandy may have
problems with the availability of the 80186 when IBM announces its
Popcorn machine.  Popcorn is rumored to contain the 80186.  I am sure
Intel would not let something like IBM's 16% ownership affect its
allocation policies.

Steve Rowan
Parsec Scientific Computer Corp.
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