On 22 Sep 2007 at 19:35, Barry Watzman wrote:
It would have been extremely difficult to have done
that with a Z-80,
it was trivial with an 8085 (using a Z-80 would probably have taken an
additional almost 2 dozen ICs ... the external hardware and bus
interfaces and signals were just totally different). Further, the
performance of the 8085 was (ok, arguably) higher
Was using an NSC800 ever discussed?
Cheers,
Chuck