Zilog reintroduces enhanced Z80!

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Sep 20 18:22:34 1999

<That eZ80 supposed to be 4x faster than original z80. Cool, nice to
<see a old dog with new tricks pop up again.
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<It's on the slashdot.org, I saw it moments ago.

???? What in the world are they babbling about?

  Well the original z80 was 2.5mhz and that was eclipsed some 10+
years ago with Z80Hs and Z180s at greater than 10mhz. Now you can get
z180s in cmos to 33mhz and the 32bit wide Z380 (with native z80) to
20+mhz (in my 1996 data book, they are faster now).

Heck I'm building a system using 12.5mhz z280s as a step up from the cmos
84c010 (10mhz cmos z80s). Oh, all of these are close to 10 years old.

Where is the news?

Allison
Received on Mon Sep 20 1999 - 18:22:34 BST