186 (was: CompuGraphics Question)

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Wed Aug 4 13:47:43 1999

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:

> > 186 ? Interesting ... it seams that there are way more 186 beaste
> > than I have asumed... This could be a collecting theme on their own.
>
> Other 80186 computers include:
>
> Mindset (1984)

The first Convergent NGEN workstations were 80186 based, and offered in 6
and 8 MHz flavours. I have one of the 8 MHz models. This would have been
ca. 1985.

Later on they were updated through 80286 and 80386 models, as well as
80486 I would expect. Then if I read the history correctly, they took a
strange evolutionary tangent and became an emulation process under Windows
NT on a vanilla Pentium PC.

ok
r.
Received on Wed Aug 04 1999 - 13:47:43 BST