29 Oct
2000
29 Oct
'00
7:54 a.m.
On October 29, ajp166 wrote:
Well, I suppose it was more like seventeen years ago...I was
thirteen...
I'll be showing him mine next week. :)
Of course, but now it's *only* doing that, mainstream-wise. I was
attempting to point out the shift in role from being a mainstream
general-purpose processor to being one used almost entirely for
embedded applications.
-Dave McGuire
I explained
that I was running a Z80-based general-purpose computer
fifteen years ago (an IMSAI with a CCS Z80 CPU board which I still
Late adoptor? the first Z80 for me was 1977 (january), NS* running
at the astronomical speed of 4mhz. That makes that board 23.8
years old. have) as my
main machine, and that the Z80 processor was a
general-purpose machine that was very popular in the 70s and 80s...and
was definitely nothing "new".
Know what? HE DIDN'T BELIEVE ME!!
Caution clue LART in use. I'd have smacked him in the snout with a
rolled up Zilog data book, Ca 1976. So, yes,
folks...the Z80 seems to be gearing up for a second
life...this time as an embedded processor. There are many variations
No, its been there for the last, oh 15 years doing that.