Just what a niche/dying OS needs for success: make it harder for people to use it.

Interesting. I'd sorta-kinda wanted to get my hands on one of these to see about porting MSDOS to a not-IBM-compat 8086 thing I built, but couldn't find it at the time.

I had a similar experience. I shelled out for a dual CPU Intel 440fx setup with SCSI disks which was my desktop well into the P3 era, and got migrated to home server where it served for many more years. I think the PPro had the longest useful life of any processor I used.

PPro was a premium chip designed for the 32-bit market; it's the equivalent of Xeon branding. You didn't spend the extra scratch to run Win 3.11 on it.

Of course, looking at his other posts he thinks the 80186 was a failure because it wasn't used in many PC compatibles, so he's pretty limited in his understanding of computer history and economics. Google can only teach you so much.

I had an Asante SCSI->Enet adapter for my much missed SE/30. Avoided dealing with atalk most of the time.