Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:44:24 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:44:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d85e5b9915e519df6b3caffff780075d"; logging-data="2058659"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18e6vZGcf7KKDItEa7+snPH" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rs+TDt5GU/19XJ9bX1zqItXMq3U= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2270 On 4/23/2024 2:40 PM, boB wrote: > I miss playing with my old home built S-100 CP/M computer around 1980. > Those were really the fun days of computing and digital logic > circuits. Nowadays, the Zx80's appeal would be in controlling things. There's little that you can't now do *better* that you would previously have used a CP/M box for. > The other day after hearing the demise of the Z80, I ordered 2 of the > 20 MHz Z80 40 pin devices. I did not even know there was a 20 MHz > version. Not sure what I will ever do with them but who knows ? > Maybe I'll just look at them. Again, in the context of "control" (i.e., deeply embedded), you would likely also need similar speed grade peripherals to do anything. I had a particular fondness for the '180 (and '7180!) as it wasn't crippled by the tiny address space (64K memory + 64K I/O) of the Z80. Over the years, I've come to realize that you usually need more space for *code* than data!