2008/3/23, Ian Manners <oice500@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > True, I think the 1MiB 80286 will run at most OS/2 v1.x or MS Windows
> > v2. There was once a veersion of GNU/Linux, and MS Xenix too.
>
> The 80286 really was a stopgap chip, crippled and quickly discarded
> as something that really was a bad idea, even for Intel.
That was the 80186. The 286 was very useful, and would have had a
much longer life had MS not discarded its plan of migrating everyone
from MS DOS 3 to MS Xenix.
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