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    The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog that played an important role in the evolution of early personal computing. Launched in 1976...
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    The Zilog eZ80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog as an updated version of the company's first product, the highly-successful Zilog Z80. The...
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    Zilog Z80 (1976) Zilog Z8000 (1979) Zilog Z800 (1985) Zilog Z80000 (late 1985) Zilog Z280 (early 1986) Zilog Z180 (late 1986) Zilog eZ80 (2001) Zilog...
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    initially known as the "Super 80", but eventually emerging as the Zilog Z80. The Z80 was a significant advance on the 8080, running on a single +5V power...
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    Z-80 SoftCard (redirect from Z80 SoftCard)
    developed by Microsoft to turn the computer into a CP/M system based upon the Zilog Z80 central processing unit (CPU). Becoming the most popular CP/M platform...
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  • assembly: TIGCC for Motorola 68000 (68k) based calculators, and SDCC for Zilog Z80 based calculators. However, both of them are cross-compilers, not allowing...
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    The Zilog Z280 is a 16-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog as an enhancement of the Zilog Z80 architecture and integrating improvements from the abandoned...
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  • The Zilog Z800 was a 16-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog and meant to be released in 1985. It was instruction compatible with their existing Z80, and...
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  • The Z80 Operating System with Relocatable Modules and I/O Management (Z80-RIO) is a general-purpose operating system developed by Zilog in the late 1970s...
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    very different from the Zilog Z80. Despite this, the instruction set and assembly language syntax are quite similar to other Zilog processors: Load/store...
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    8080 and the Zilog Z80. The SM83 has the seven 8-bit registers of the 8080 (lacking the alternate registers of the Z80) but uses the Z80's programming...
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  • Retrieved 2024-11-10. "Z80,OOOTM CPU Preliminary Technical Manual September 1984" (PDF). p. 12(1-3). Retrieved 2023-12-08. Zilog Z80,000 CPU Preliminary...
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    16 arcade board, centered on a Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites...
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    Commodore 128 (category Z80-based home computers)
    video output in addition to the original C64 modes. It also included a Zilog Z80 CPU which allows the C128 to run CP/M, as an alternative to the usual...
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    Federico Faggin (category Zilog people)
    Ralph Ungermann) and CEO of Zilog, the first company solely dedicated to microprocessors, and led the development of the Zilog Z80 and Z8 processors. He was...
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  • 16-bit addresses. The Zilog Z80 (compatible with the 8080) and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers. The Z80 and the MOS Technology...
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    Game Boy (category Z80-based video game consoles)
    the Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 processors. It combines the seven 8-bit registers of the 8080 (omitting the alternate registers of the Z80) with the programming...
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    The Zilog Z180 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog as a successor to the Z80. It is compatible with the large base of software written for the...
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    would have used an S100 bus, an 8-bit processor such as an Intel 8080 or Zilog Z80, and either CP/M or MP/M operating system. The increasing availability...
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    serial communication USART chip. He then joined Zilog, where he worked with Faggin to develop the Zilog Z80 (1976) and Z8000 (1979). He studied organic chemistry...
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    expensive; in 1981 single-unit quantities were $37 compared to $9 for a Zilog Z80 and $6 for a 6502. It was launched when a new generation of 16-bit processors...
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    Game Boy Color (category Z80-based video game consoles)
    8080 and the Zilog Z80, the SM83 has the seven 8-bit registers of the 8080 (lacking the alternate registers of the Z80) but uses the Z80's programming...
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    the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 (Apple, Commodore, Atari, BBC Micro) and Zilog Z80 (TRS-80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 128, Amstrad CPC). One exception...
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    Archives". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. "Zilog Sees New Lease of Life for Z80 in Internet Appliances". Computergram International. 1999...
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    Mikroelektronik "Karl Marx" in 1983). The U880 is an unlicensed clone of the Zilog Z80 microprocessor, also supporting illegal opcodes and bugs, except for very...
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  • Freescale v4e, Motorola 680x0, MIPS, PowerPC, IBM System z, TI MSP430, Zilog Z80. SDAS (fork of ASxxxx Cross Assemblers and part of the Small Device C...
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    While the 8085 was an improvement on the 8080, it was eclipsed by the Zilog Z80 in the early-to-mid-1980s, which took over much of the desktop computer...
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  • Scientific UK Cambridge Algol 68 ICL, IBM 360, PDP 10 & Unix, Telefunken, Tesla & Z80(1980) Cambridge ALGOL 68C ALGOL 68 Revised Reportr1 1975 Standard Intl IFIP...
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    console devices. CP/M would also run on systems based on the Zilog Z80 processor since the Z80 was compatible with 8080 code. While the Digital Research...
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    TI-84 Plus series (category Z80)
    user-accessible RAM and 3.0 MB of Archive memory. It uses the eZ80 processor from Zilog, making all Z80 assembly programs from the previous TI-84 Plus series calculators...
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