[net.micro] Info on INTEL 86-380

sundar (01/05/83)

	  INTEL 86-380 is a 8086 based system that comes with
	RMX-86 monitor, 384 K RAM and possibly a disk drive
	for a 35 M Winchester drive.
	  Has anyone used this or any other closely related
	system ? How good is the RMX-86 ? Does it have any
	obvious short comings, problems, plus points etc ?
	What is your application ?  Did you consider using
	a floppy in place of the Winchester drive ?
	  The desired application for this system is in a
	chemical lab where it will be used as a supervisor
	monitoring temperature, pressure etc, making decisions
	as to whether to a open a valve, set a controller in
	motion etc. It will have a Fortran compiler to
	accommodate numerical programs to aid the supervisor.
	It is not known at this point what the speed requirements
	will be.
	  This information is requested on behalf of someone else
	who is a chemical engineer with not much experience in
	selecting systems for his work. I for myself don't have
	any experience in it. So please send in as much information
	as you can. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

	Sundar Iyengar		decvax!cwruecmp!sundar