Timeline for 80286 pricing and availability
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| Oct 24, 2018 at 14:20 | comment | added | Jules | Also, I definitely disagree with any notion that building a machine with an 80186 is in way difficult ... The 186 was designed as an integrated computer, approaching what we'd call a "system on a chip" these days - CPU, integrated peripherals and enough memory to get a minimal system running without needing any other components. It was designed to be easy to integrate. (Of course this was also its downfall -- those integrated peripherals weren't PC compatible, so you needed to run a custom DOS version to make it useful, and PC games wouldn't run). | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 14:11 | comment | added | Jules | I totally disagree with your assessment. Plenty of people built homebrew 8086 machines, running at 8MHz in many cases. The 80286 isn't that much harder, and of similar complexity to the 68020 which was a very popular choice for homebrewers. I'd pick the 80386 as the last mainstream processor that was accessible to homebrew design, at least at lower speeds (I certainly wouldn't homebrew a system at 40MHz, but iirc there was a 16MHz version which should have been achievable). Homebrew wasn't strictly an 8 bit phenomenon, even if it was easier to start back then | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 10:14 | comment | added | PeterI | It was certainly possible to build reliable 80286 boards with wire wrap (I've done it in the past) timing requirements weren't too bad. | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 6:15 | comment | added | tofro | You couldn't? No, not necessarily. But maybe you wouldn't have done - The rare nerdy computer tinkerers of the time based their tinkering on less expensive material. | |
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| Oct 24, 2018 at 0:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 24, 2018 at 0:28 | history | answered | Doug Ryan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |