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Intergraph[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
by whoopdedo 3y ago
Intergraph[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