Windows 1.x platforms...

From: Kip Crosby <engine_at_chac.org>
Date: Tue May 19 17:19:52 1998

At 17:24 5/19/98 -0400, Allison wrote:
>....I think winders didn't run on
>the 80186(8) used in one of the tandys and a few oddballs. mostly because
>the 186 has some on board peripherals (DMA and interrupts) that were not
>PCclone compatable.

On the contrary: There was a special version of Windows for the Tandy 2000
(80186) and Bill Gates referred to it as "the first computer built
specifically to run Windows."

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