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Today's blog post covers Intel's 186 CPU. The 80186 was a flop as a desktop CPU but a famous company founded by two guys in a garage in California used it very successfully in an early handheld. Not to mention the extensive use it saw as an embedded CPU. #RetroComputing #DOScember https://dfarq.homeip.net/intel-80186-cpu-so-misunderstood/
The Silicon Underground · Intel 80186 CPU: So misunderstoodThe Intel 80186 CPU was famously inept as a PC CPU. Yet it sold well for 25 years and a company founded in a California garage even used it in a pioneering handheld. This blog post explains how and why.