> At 04:54 PM 11/10/00 +0000, John Honniball wrote:
> >Absolutely. It was just like an 8086, as far as the
> >programmer was concerned, but it had a few on-chip
> >peripherals.
> The threat of being asked to program the 80186 in assembler
> all day long played a major part in my decision to quit a
> job back in 1985 or so. I knew my brain would melt, so I
> became a freelance writer in the Amiga market.
Shure ? I had to go thru the same kind of decision, and I
learned to love the 186 - shure, one needs a little push
to start, but later on it's just great - eventualy the best
_sixteen_ bit CPU around. If you look at the 8080/5, Z80,
8086 and 80186 family, the 186 is the finest of all.
Sleak and simple - compared the 68K looks quite bloaded
and clumpsy (ok, it's 32 bit, but still the most compared
competition at it's time).
Gruss
H.
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