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From: kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 80186 in a TRS80 - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 11:31:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 11:31:19 1983
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The problem with a 186 in the TRS 2000 is that it will not be IBM
compatible.  MS-DOS is rumored to use opcodes (or more properly interrupts)
that Intel reserved for future expansion and then used in the 186.

Many people believe this is why the IBM Peanut did not use the 188, which
would have made sense from a hardware or cost sense.

So, don't hold your hopes too high for this machine.
-- 
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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