Re:Power9 to the People
by Annatar on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:36AM
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The 8080 and 8086 designs draw directly from Z80. You can see it in the assembler mnemonics and how the operands are handled. And segmented memory access, oh my!
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The 8080 predates the Z-80 by about two years.
He likely meant the 8086 and 8088.
That's possible, but, still, even though I find the Z-80 a rather kludgy and inefficient thing (compared to the simplicity of the 6502 and the 6502 machines we had at the time), if felt much neater than the 8086 family.