[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

Glen mclilith at charter.net
Mon Feb 2 01:56:39 CET 2004


At 08:37 AM 2/1/04 , Magnus Danielson wrote:

>I've always considered the 80186/80188 an embedded version of the 8086/8088
>which fits various needs outside those of normal "desktop" computing. For
>instance, I have one sitting in the graphical engine of my Tek 11402 scope.
>It has a 80286 for main-processor. Whoaaa! Now that's computing power! ;O)

Just to bring this back to the realm of synths, the Chroma Polaris used the
80186. I'm not sure about the Chroma and the Chroma Expander, but I suspect
they might also use the 80186.

later,
Glen Berry



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