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Re:Altair 8800 Simulator by tempodox on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:06AM (#17599868)
The Z80 is a science fiction luxury space ship when compared to the 8080.
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Re:Altair 8800 Simulator by DonHopkins on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:23PM (#17602505)
The Z80's nice, but I always thought of the 6809 as the Chrysler Cordoba of 8 bit microprocessors, with soft Corinthian Leather upholstery and a luxurious automatic multiply instruction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsg97bxuJnc

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Re:Altair 8800 Simulator by rbanffy on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:01AM (#17606817)
I'll never respect a CPU that needs 4 clock cycles to do a NOP. ;-)
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