CP/M for Fairchild F8 ? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Sep 2006

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Subject: Re: CP/M for Fairchild F8 ?
   From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
   Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:24 +0100 (BST)
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

  The Z8 has nothing in common with the F8 
Sure it does. They're both silicon chips, they're both microprocessors, 
they both normally come in 40 pi DIL packages. But that's about it :-) 
:-) :-)

  and it's remarkable that there are even these
two. From a programmers point
 of view the F8 was a real abortion: the only processor that I've heard of in
 which a Jump corrumpts the contents of the accumulator. 
It does _what_??? Thank %deity I've never had to design with that thing. 
If that were the only horror it would be ok. It's pretty poor but it was
one of the first controller chip that was 8bit and low chip count. The 
8048/9 was vastly better!

Allison