Front Panel Theory

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Nov 26 01:57:15 1998

On Nov 25, 23:44, Allison J Parent wrote:

> Front pannels don't work with Z80s if... DRAM depends on the z80 for
> refresh. Reason is the stopped state is a very long wait state.

Do you mean if you execute a HALT instruction? If you do that, the Z80
behaves as if it's continuously executing HALT instructions, performing
repeated bus cycles, including the RFSH signal part.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu Nov 26 1998 - 01:57:15 GMT

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