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RE: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General



I could be wrong here, it's been a heck of a long time, but didn't the Altos
486 (nothing to do with the 80486 cpu) multi-user system use the 80186?

Phil

> I suspect you're thinking of the 80186/8.  The 8088 is an 8086 with an 8
> bit data bus; the 8018x chips had integrated interrupt and DMA controllers
> and a timer and so were used as microcontrollers.
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