Altos 586 system sold on eBay

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:27:40 +0100
Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:

> Scott Stevens wrote:
> 
> > Is your Altos a 386-processor system?  Those are much newer than the
586
> > which is a five-user 8086 system.
> 
> Yes, it is.  It has a 386 and a 186 on the main board, and a 286 for
the 
> network and additional serial port board.
> 
> Gordon.
Sounds a little like the Sun 386i, being a non-commodity 386 machine
that runs a 'proprietary' OS.  Does anybody know what an Altos 386 was
designed to run?