On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Grant Stockly <grant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 01:17 PM 4/27/2008, you wrote: > > > I had an old D-link wireless router that used an embedded 80186, had a > PCMCIA card slot, a PRISM I PC card, and some useful ports on the back. > Shame that it failed; running ELKS on that would have been like gold. A > very lucrative device to develop ELKS on for sure, but the point is that it > had the 80186 CPU (the 186 was/is an embedded-only CPU, never really used in > any general-purpose computers to my knowledge). The COM, LPT, and more than > one Realtek RTL8019, as well as the PCMCIA interface make it quite possibly > the most modern-peripheral-laden 16-bit Intel CPU in existence. > > > > The 186 was used in CP/M-86 systems. I have a computer with one that runs > AutoCAD version 1.4 for CP/M. I don't know if the 186 was used in computers > beyond those with the S-100 bus. > > The computer with AutoCAD has more video memory than system memory. : ) > > Grant Hello! Strangely enough Grant that did come up. Inside the group, actually a newsgroup, which supports Kermit, (Program, mind, not the overworked and underpaid muppet.) I have here an accelerator card who has an I80186 on it. At one point I had an idea to sort out how to reprogram its firmware to pose as such a system, but the idea ran out of steam, when I couldn't find anything further about the firm. The processor was also used for a few embedded projects. I have a project taking shape that might be able to make use of one, but right now it is only up to the paperwork and drafting table status. -- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@xxxxxxxxx "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
