Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Panteltje Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:31:42 GMT Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:31:42 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="426050"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (Linux-5.15.32-v7l+) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J4TYdL6ZIyi5NJW5Hq1hGuPrCP0= X-Newsreader-location: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (c) 'LIGHTSPEED' off line news reader for the Linux platform NewsFleX homepage: http://www.panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ and ftp download ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/news/readers/ X-User-ID: eJwVycERwDAIA7CVQolNMw7gsP8IveorOI0dm+DGYMJ6tCzxNAMeF9to3kfG6ylVjQrJ+kvn1apTF/kEZcEPW5UV8g== Bytes: 2380 Lines: 32 On a sunny day (Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:23:32 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Dan Purgert wrote in : >On 2024-04-23, Jan Panteltje wrote: >> After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 >> microprocessor chip Z80 powered game consoles, ZX Spectrum, Pac-Man, >> and a 1970s PC standard based on CP/M. > >Yep, just got the EOL notice from Digikey yesterday. Shame... Well, I will get over it https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/index.html Wrote a disassembler for it once and a CP/M clone when I had no CP/M only a Sinclair ZX80, later a ZX81 .. https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/index.html Build a lot of hardware for my Z80 system: https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/system14/diagrams/index.html Dumped it all years ago. People were still using the disassembler a few years ago it seems. Very nice processor. I think I had a Z80 simulator on some old Linux PC once? But the world keeps changing... Not always for the better, more bloat every day.. If you see Chromium on Raspbery Pi 4 8 GB taking sometimes minutes to display a simple text based website... cache... You could probably use the FPGA Z80 version :-) https://opencores.org/projects/a-z80