Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Computer Products United Date: 16 Nov 2015 09:59:31 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <93aafdef-8e0a-42d7-8bbe-a78e75ee6129@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net jxthCYNoXKavZg2MNgiBUwYiOSLOV0H06wAvb8a9F5aTFlE6io Cancel-Lock: sha1:BzCDrKh2PeoC3Lp325Xv8PJUemI= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:154541 On 2015-11-16, Bob Eager wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:54:28 -0800, chriskeegan2014 wrote: > >> I have an ad clipped from some magazine kicking around somewhere. This >> company in Anaheim, CA iirc made, to my knowledge, the world's only >> 80186 based IBM Compatible motherboard. The only thing that comes >> anywhere near, again to my knowledge, is the V40 based Ampro >> LittleBoard/PC. The earlier 80186 Ampro was not compatible. >> Anyway if you know about this company, worked for this company, or just >> have any of it's older products kicking around collecting dust, please >> chime in. > > 'Compatible' in a very loose sense, I guess. Compatible at the BIOS > level, but not at the hardware level, since the 80186 had marked > differences in the way it handled certain operations such as interrupts. Was not the Amstrad PC an 80186? And I know the PC add-in board for the Xerox 6085 was. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 28th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.