Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mcnc!rti!bcw
From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80186 (was : 80x86 numbering)
Summary: We were talking about PC's!
Message-ID: <2623@rti.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 05:21:38 GMT
References: <2618@rti.UUCP> <404@megatek.UUCP>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <404@megatek.UUCP>, hollen@spot.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
> From article <2618@rti.UUCP>, by bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright):
> > There is, of course an 80186 (and an 80188)  [...]
> > 
> Sorry, Bruce, but this chip is VERY popular with embedded system
> developers. [...]

Sorry, Dion, but I thought the thread of this discussion was about 
PC-type machines.  In that context the 80186/80188, although not
unknown, is not at all popular.

					Bruce C. Wright