Monitor for iSBC 8024

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun Oct 29 15:54:32 2000

On October 29, ajp166 wrote:
> > 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.

  Well, I suppose it was more like seventeen years ago...I was
thirteen...

> >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.

  I'll be showing him mine next week. :)

> > 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.

  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
Received on Sun Oct 29 2000 - 15:54:32 GMT