blarson@usc-oberon.UUCP (Bob Larson) (10/16/86)
In article <144@intelca.UUCP> clif@intelca.UUCP (Clif Purkiser) writes: >I think your questions is "what computers use the 8086 architecture other >than MS-DOS machines?" The answer is quite a few. > >In addition their are scores if not hundreds of companies that use 80x86 that >don't make PC clones. Prime, [...] However, I don't know if they choose the >80x86 prior to the availability of the 68000. [I'm only reponding re prime because that is the one I know about.] [Note that Prime headed his list of other 8086 users. I wonder if the other manufacutures are even more misrepresented. Prime does make an ms-dos Ibm Pc clone. (They came out with it fairly recently.) My personal opinion is this will be droped in a year or so when they realize this is to little, to expencive, and to late. Other prime products using intel 80*86 family chips: Producer 100. Dedicated word processor. As far as I know, they didn't get the software working right. [File editing did work, the problem was the claims of evental compatibility with prime software other than OAS.] The product flopped, and I think Prime eventually gave it up. Pt200 terminal. I thought we were talking about computers, not terminals. I think prime was planning on using an 80286 in their eithernet board. Again, I though we were talking about computers, not peripherals. [I do know of prime peripherals that use z80's and z8000's.] Clif, please give me the product name of the COMPUTER that prime sells that uses an intel chip as the main cpu and does not run MS-DOS as the primary operating system. [The Producer 100 doesn't qualify, it wasn't user programable.] [Prime makes some very nice systems, but not in the under $10,000 market.] >Clif Purkiser, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. >{pur-ee,hplabs,amd,scgvaxd,dual,idi,omsvax}!intelca!clif > >I guess I better put back the old disclaimer line. These views >are my own property. However anyone who wants them can have them. I don't want them. Please take them back. -- Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Usc-Eclb.Arpa or blarson@usc-oberon.arpa Uucp: (ihnp4,hplabs,tektronix)!sdcrdcf!usc-oberon!blarson