Editing Intel 80186 (section)

== Uses ==

=== In personal computers ===
Because the integrated hardware included in the 80186 was incompatible with the support chips chosen by [[IBM]] for the [[8088]]-based [[IBM&nbsp;PC]] released a few months earlier, the chip did not see wide success in the PC market. IBM chose the [[80286]] for its successor, the [[IBM Personal Computer/AT|IBM&nbsp;PC/AT]], released in August 1984. Most other PC-compatible manufactures followed.

Regardless, several notable [[personal computer]]s used the 80186:
* Danish [[Regnecentralen]]: [https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/RC_Partner RC750 Partner] running CCP/M
* Danish [[Regnecentralen]]: [https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/RC_Piccoline RC759 Piccoline] running CCP/M
* Australian [[Dulmont Magnum]] laptop, one of the first laptops
* [[Wang Laboratories|Wang]] Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor
* [[MAD-1]], a semi–IBM PC-compatible desktop computer with a modular design
* [[Pronto System 16]], another PC compatible
* [[Mindset (computer)|Mindset]], a very early graphics workstation
* [[Siemens]] {{Interlanguage link|Siemens PC-D{{!}}PC-D|de|3=Siemens PC-D}} (not 100% [[IBM PC compatible]] but using [[MS-DOS]] 2.11)
* [[Compis]], a [[Sweden|Swedish]] school computer
* French [[SMT-Goupil]] G4
* [[RM Nimbus]] PC-186, the first version of a series of British school computers
* [[Unisys ICON]], a Canadian school computer
* ORB Computer by ABS<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nosher.net/archives/computers/pcw_1984-03-00_007_orb |title=Orb Micro Advert - March 1984 |access-date=2024-12-01}}</ref>
* [[HP 100LX]], [[HP 200LX]], [[HP 1000CX]], and [[HP OmniGo 700LX]]
* [[Tandy 2000]] desktop, a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day
* Telex 1260, a desktop PC-XT compatible
* [[Philips :YES]]
* Nokia [[MikroMikko]] 2
* [[IBM PCradio]]
* [[Altos Computer Systems|Altos]] 486 xenix 3.1 based multiuser server. 

In addition to the above examples of stand-alone implementations of the 80186 for personal computers, there were at least two examples of "add-in" accelerator card implementations: the [[BBC Master#Master 512|BBC Master 512]], [[Acorn Computers|Acorn]]'s plug-in for the BBC Master range of computers containing an 80186–10 with 512&nbsp;KB of RAM, and the [[Orchid Technology]] PC Turbo 186,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2i4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49 |title=Adding Spunk to the IBM PC |magazine=[[InfoWorld]] |date=May 20, 1985 | page=49 |volume=7 |issue=20 |first=Don |last=Crabb}}</ref> released in 1985. It was intended for use with the original [[Intel 8088]]-based [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM&nbsp;PC]] (Model&nbsp;5150).

=== Other devices ===
The Intel 80186 and 80188 are often embedded in electronic devices that are not primarily computers. For example:
* The 80186 was used to control the Microtek 8086 in-circuit emulator.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLBmWu6Mg4 |title=EEVblog #410 – Microtek 8086 In-Circuit Emulator Teardown |publisher=EEVBlog |date=January 15, 2013 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
* The 80188 was embedded inside the Intel 14.4EX modem released in 1991. The 16&nbsp;MHz processor was used to perform complex algorithms needed for forward error correction, [[trellis modulation]], and echo cancellation in the modem.
* The second-generation SatisFAXtion board, which is a [[FAX]]/[[modem]] [[Industry Standard Architecture|ISA]] card, uses this processor.<ref>Intel Corporation, "New Product Focus: Systems: PC Fax Board Simplifies Data Transmission", Microcomputer Solutions, January/February 1991, page&nbsp;14.</ref>
* The IBM 7171 protocol converter, which made [[ASCII]] [[character-oriented terminal]]s appear as an [[IBM&nbsp;3270]] terminal to an IBM mainframe,<ref name="Brear1985">{{cite magazine |last=Brear |first=Scott |date=January 21, 1985 |title=Cycle of change speeds up |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-MrXqjWoIYC&pg=PA61-IA15 |magazine=[[Computerworld]] |publisher=IDG Enterprise |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=ID/15 |issn=0010-4841}}</ref> used the Intel 80186 as its CPU.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7171/GA37-0021-0_7171_Reference_Manual_and_Programming_Guide_Jan86.pdf |title=7171 Reference Manual and Programming Guide |publisher=IBM Corporation |year=1986 |pages=4–13 |id=GA37-0021-0}}</ref>
* It was also used on the controller card for Digital Equipment Corporation's [[DECtalk]] speech synthesizer system.