Altos 686

From: Glen Goodwin <acme_at_gbronline.com>
Date: Wed May 19 11:13:27 2004

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From: "Scott Stevens" <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
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Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Altos 686


> You're probably right. I should have just said 'the 580 was an 8-bit
> CP/M machine.' There weren't that many 8080 machines in the later years
> of CP/M, i.e. the Altos 580 time period. By then everyone had switched
> to the Z80. And Intel was hyping the 8085. Were there many other
> machines besides the Tandy 100 that used the 8085?

The Zenith Z-100 is a dual-processor machine featuring both the 8088 and
8085, but most people used them as almost-PCs and the 8085 was pretty much
ignored.

Glen
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