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Re: Millennium Train sets
- Subject: Re: Millennium Train sets
- From: ajwright@spam.ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright)
- Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 11:00:21 GMT
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On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 05:29:38 GMT, dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David
Bromage) wrote:
>Motorola has a bigger market share in industrial computers.
I remember the old 6809 and the 68000.
>> We use a multiplexer at work that is
>> based on a 186' somthing that never found its way to the PC
>> enviroment, but is quite capable of running a 34mb/s backplane.
>
>Do you mean _the_ 186?? The 80186 was a commercial product offered by
>Intel. It had all the new features but wasn't upwardly compatable with the
>8086/8088. Upward compatability was added (after demands from the US
>Department of Defense) and it was re-released as the 80286.
>
Yep I do mean the 80186. As I said it was in a few industrial type
products, and did the job quite well.
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