Altos 586

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Oct 25 18:24:07 2001

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/25/01 2:15:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com writes:
>
>
> > There were Altos' that ran MP/M-II, and others than ran XENIX... ISTR
> > that the 586 was the squarish-box that ran MP/M-II, while the other
> > model that had a hi-techish, Datageneralish look to it ran XENIX.
> > We had both...
> >
> >
>
> The Z-80 Altos was the 580. This was the same squashed hexagon design used in
> the 586, 786 etc. Since it was a multiterminal machine each terminal had it's
> own Z-80 IIRC. These ran CPM and MPM.
>
> The 586s were an 8086 16 bit designs. Most of the ones I saw ran Xenix.
> however I had a couple that ran MPM-II based on a version of Digital Research
> DOS-86, I can't remember what it was called.
>
> Most 586s were of the squashed Hex design that I think Doug is calling DGish.
> I do seem to remember the first 586s were shipped in a square box, a la the
> 8XXX series. Of course my memory could be off, it has been a long time and I
> never saw one of those.
>
> Paxton
> Astoria, OR
>

Well, I can bracket the 586's O/S as the 486 ran CCP/M-86 and the 686
ran CCDOS.
                                                 - don
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