286 accelerator cards - Was : Ancient 8086/80286 unixes?

[Chris M]

--- Geoff Reed <geoffr at zipcon.net> wrote:

> There was also one for the Dec-Rainbow, it went into
> the 8086 socket, the
> Turbow 286.

 Did this by any chance offer some degree of IBM
compatibility, or was it just a speed-up? There were
at least a couple of '286 upgrades for the Texas
Instruments Professional Computer. Turns out there
were also '286 versions of the TI PC and TI PPC.


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