Intel 80186 microprocessor

[robban]

Hi!
Does anybody have experience of the 80186 in embedded applications? Intel's homepage is not working for me. Since I cannot get much further in developing apps. for the PIC, I thought of the Intel family for enhanced power and compatibility with well-known software as Borland, HLA and open-platform(GNU, Linux and free RTOS). Thought of connecting a 1 Gig USB Flash device to the core that can be formatted in various ways.
I need to start off with an experiment board, of course.
 
Thank You in advance...

[robban]

Hi Dax.

What I really need is a good development hardware platform with a serial and a parallell port and a programmer. The software is always easier to obtain. I am currently studying the HLA compiler/assembler(free) which can be configured to output .asm files to TASM, MASM, OpenBSD and a few others. It relies on MASM linker(ml) and a few other executables which can be copied from the also free MASM32.
The HLA manual "The art of assembly programming" (uploaded by Rego) is a hit. Have You done any work with the 80186 Yourself (apart from Windows and DOS programming)?
 
Thanx in adv...

[robban]

In addition, I lean towards the thought of using the freeware that is currently flooding the web. Not only for licence and royalty-free issues, but also the fact that software houses realize that they have to produce BSD and Linux code. If we are to compete with them, we have to do the same. The Web is no longer hacker's paradise(in this respect).
My intention is to make use of a powerful 32-bit microprocessor(not microcontroller) that can handle a -say - simple LCD driver written in assembler with 32-bit GUI interface.
With all respect to ARM, beat that...

[robban]

Hi there!
have You tried to assemble it? The scheme doesn't say wether it's a 8086 or a .386. I mean, in order to assemble it, it would be nice to have a 20 MHZ .386 so I can make use of the full 1 MByte addres space in Real Mode Segmented model.  Derived:
delay1: push cx
     mov cx,40000
     loop $
     pop cx
     loop delay1
     ret
 This is a loop that never ends before returning to the caller. OK?
Regards Robban