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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:34:54 -0400
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"Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On 4/24/2024 7:03 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>>> so in something like and FPGA in is with range of internal ram and 
>>> memory
>>> speed is not really an issue
>>
>> Yes. That's where I'd put a Z80 in the unlikely event that I wanted to 
>> use
>> one these days.
>> Along with RAM, ROM, and anything else it needs.
>
> You'd be better served to use something like a 6502 core as
> the bus is cleaner and the core can run considerably faster.
>

One reason I liked the 6809 was that it had 16 bit registers like the first 
CPU I ever used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Semiconductor_SC/MP