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RM Nimbus PC186. MS-DOS based but not PC-compatible, and used the rare 80186 processor. Popular in UK education for a while. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM
by Doctor_Fegg 3y ago
RM Nimbus PC186. MS-DOS based but not PC-compatible, and used the rare 80186 processor. Popular in UK education for a while.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM_Nimbus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM_Nimbus
The Wikipedia article on the 80186 lists a bunch of forgotten, often not PC-compatible, machines using that CPU:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186
- lproven 3y agoI did know about the Nimbus. I should have included that. D'oh! And the BBC Master 512, of course...
- whoopdedo 3y agoIntergraph[1] workstations based on the Fairchild Clipper CPU included a 80186 for booting into PC-DOS. At $30K in '80s dollars that might have made it the most expensive way to run DOS. But I think when booted into UNIX the 186 was used for I/O processing. [1] https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/intergraph https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/intergraph