INTEL 80186

The '80186' is a microprocessor that was developed by Intel circa 1982. The 80186 was an improvement on the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. As with the 8086, it had a 16-bit external bus and was also available as the Intel 80188, with an 8-bit external data bus. The initial clock rate of the 80186 and 80188 was 6 MHz, but due to more hardware (in place of microcode) some of the individual instructions ran 10-20 times faster than on an 8086 at the same clock frequency. They were generally used as embedded processors (roughly comparable to microcontrollers). They were not used in many personal computers, but there were some notable exceptions: the Mindset, the Siemens PC-D (the first DOS PC line of Siemens, with MSDOS v2.11), the Compis (a Swedish school computer), the RM Nimbus (a British school computer), the Unisys ICON (a Canadian school computer), the HP 200lx, the Tandy 2000 desktop (a somewhat PC-compatible workstation featuring particularly sharp graphics for its day) and the Philips "Yes". Another British computer manufacturer, Acorn, created a plug-in second processor that contained the 80186 chip along with assorted support chips and 512 KiB of RAM – hence the Master 512 system.
One major function of the 80186/80188 series was to reduce the number of chips required by including features such as a DMA controller, interrupt controller, timers, and chip select logic.
New instructions were introduced as follows:
ENTER Make stack frame for procedure parameters
LEAVE High-level procedure exit
PUSHA Push all general registers
POPA Pop all general registers
BOUND Check array index against bounds
UD2 Generate invalid opcode exception
INS Input from port to string
OUTS Output string to port

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External links

★ Intel's Official Page for the 80186

★ Intel 80186/80188 images and descriptions at cpu-collection.de

★ Scan of the Intel 80186 data book at datasheetarchive.com

★ Intel Microprossor History