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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:46:35 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-12, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>    Wonder how fast, with modern techniques, you could
>    REALLY make a Z80 ? Could prob fit a bunch on a
>    single die ....

There must be a bunch of people that have written a Z80 for an FPGA.
Though I think it is more common to do an 8086 as a debug/configuration
tool for an FPGA based special purpose data mangler.