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    The Zilog Z8000 is a 16-bit microprocessor architecture designed by Zilog and introduced in early 1979. Two chips were initially released, differing only...
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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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  • The Zilog Z80000 is an unreleased 32-bit processor designed by Zilog and completed in 1986. The Z80000 is a 32-bit expansion of the 16-bit Zilog Z8000 with...
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  • Z800 contrasts with Zilog's first 16-bit effort, the Zilog Z8000, in that the Z800 was intended to be Z80 compatible, while the Z8000 was only Z80-like...
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    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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    the Zilog Z8000 Microprocessor" (PDF) (Interview). Datasheets and manuals Z80 Datasheet (NMOS); Zilog; 10 pages; 1978. Z80 Data Book (NMOS); Zilog; 131...
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    implemented in NMOS with a multiplexed "Z-Bus" interface that matched the Zilog Z8000/Z16C00/8086 CPUs Z8530 Functionally identical to the Z8030, but using...
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    Z8015 (1985) used with the Zilog Z8000 family of processors. Later microprocessors (such as the Motorola 68030 and the Zilog Z280) placed the MMU together...
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  • processors include the Intel 8086, the Intel 80286, the WDC 65C816, and the Zilog Z8000. The Intel 8088 was binary compatible with the Intel 8086, and was 16-bit...
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  • abandoning this effort to adopt the Z8000. The C900 was a 16-bit computer based on the segmented version of the Zilog Z8000 CPU. Initial announcements indicated...
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    even as single-chip 16-bit microprocessors such as the TMS 9900 and Zilog Z8000 appeared in the later 1970s. Most mini vendors introduced their own single-chip...
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  • TC1800. Olivetti's first modern personal computer, the M20, featuring a Zilog Z8000 CPU, was released in 1982. The M20 was followed in 1983 by the M24, a...
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    The NE-Z8000 is a Brazilian homebuilt computer clone of the Sinclair ZX81, introduced in late 1982 by Prológica's subsidiary, the monthly magazine Nova...
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    microcomputer systems including IBM PC compatibles and machines based on the Zilog Z8000 and Motorola 68000. Initially sold to OEMs, starting 1983 it was available...
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    and manufacturing field, in particular based on AMD's second-source Zilog Z8000 microprocessors. When the two companies' vision for Advanced Micro Computers...
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    The Olivetti M20 is a Zilog Z8000 based computer designed and released by Olivetti in 1982. Although it offered good performance, it suffered from a lack...
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    notably including the MOS Technology 6502 and 6510 in addition to the Zilog Z80. Although considerably easier than in machine language, writing long...
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  • company stated that it intended to port the operating system to the Zilog Z8000 series, Digital LSI-11, Intel 8086 and 80286, Motorola 68000, and possibly...
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  • an Intel 8086 and a Zilog Z80 expansion board. Additional expansion boards with the Motorola 68000, Intel 80286 and Zilog Z8000 processors were also...
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    computers. In 1982, there was also a port from CP/M-68K to the 16-bit Zilog Z8000 for the Olivetti M20, written in C, named CP/M-8000. These 16-bit versions...
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  • the 5 MHz 16-bit Zilog Z8000 showed this clearly. Program size was about 30% larger than the VAX but very close to that of the Z8000, validating the argument...
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  • 8080/8085 and Zilog Z80 Personal CP/M, a refinement of CP/M CP/M Plus with BDOS 3.0 CP/M-68K CP/M for Motorola 68000 CP/M-8000 CP/M for Zilog Z8000 CP/M-86...
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    single-user Xenix, or XEDOS, which would also run on the Motorola 68000, Zilog Z8000, and the LSI-11; they would be upwardly compatible with Xenix, which...
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    of two additional boards, one with a U8000 16-bit microprocessor (a Zilog Z8000 clone), and one with 256KB DRAM. The original 8-bit system functioned...
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    planned (but unreleased) UNIX-based business computer based around the Zilog Z8000, Commodore designed the VDC into several prototype machines. Of these...
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    were expensive; by the decade's end, low-cost 16-bit designs like the Zilog Z8000 were becoming common. Some unusual word lengths were also produced, including...
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  • (soft processor) MicroBlaze 32-bit (soft processor) Zilog Z80 architecture Zilog Z800 Zilog Z8000 Zilog Z80000 List of Intel cores Bowen, Jonathan P. (July–August...
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    of small business computers in the late 1970s based on the Intel 8080, Zilog Z80 and Intel 8085 microprocessor chips. Most ran the CP/M-80 operating...
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  • the earlier 8-bit designs. Notable among these were the Intel 8088 and Zilog Z8000, designs using 16-bit internals, which initially became available as...
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    and manufacturing field, in particular based on AMD's second-source Zilog Z8000 microprocessors. When the two companies' vision for Advanced Micro Computers...
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