George White wrote in a message to Sean Dennis:

 SD> OK, how many people you know that have a 80186?  I know my

 GW> Me! :-)
 GW> They are the CPU on intelligent comms cards I use.
 GW> The 80186 was specifically targeted at embedded systems. The
 GW> integrated peripherals are not generally suitable for the
 GW> standard PC architecture so you'll rarely find it except in
 GW> embedded systems. 

Actually,  the reason for that,  as I understand it,  is the fact that
although Intel specified that certain interrupts were "reserved" for the
original 8086 and 8088 chips IBM went ahead and used them anyway,  making it
darn near impossible to use the '186 (and '188) chips in any sort of pc clone
hardware.

There was one machine out that used one of these,  as I recall -- the Tandy
2000.  But it never did sell all that well,  and I don't know how "compatible" 
it was.

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