I didn't realize the IBM Displaywriter System (released 1980) was so similar to the (later) IBM PC: it's also an 8086 system, similar enough that it had a DOS port and could run CP/M-86 and UCSD p-System.
No wonder it died out once the PC took off. It was more or less the same system but for nearly twice the price.
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