<I suspect that it's only news to the slashdot crowd. "Two (or three) <decade-old architecture still doing real work" is news for 99% of the folk <out there, though it isn't to us :-). I agree. ;) However I did check zilog and the part is a new beast and does offer potential for some hot performance. Little things like 24bit linear address and an accumulate/multiply engine. With those goodies added yep, beats 180s182. The z80 has plenty of room to grow and unlike the 8080-->8088 transistion they learned from the z8000... it's z80 code compatable! This is one I'd like to play with... can you imagine CPM with 16mb ram at 30+mhz? Allison