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From: "Scott Stevens" <sastevens(a)earthlink.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Altos 686
You're probably right. I should have just said
'the 580 was an 8-bit
CP/M machine.' There weren't that many 8080 machines in the later years
of CP/M, i.e. the Altos 580 time period. By then everyone had switched
to the Z80. And Intel was hyping the 8085. Were there many other
machines besides the Tandy 100 that used the 8085?
The Zenith Z-100 is a dual-processor machine featuring both the 8088 and
8085, but most people used them as almost-PCs and the 8085 was pretty much
ignored.
Glen
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