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Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by jandrese on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:19AM (#33234735)
I don't think MMUs were common on machines that ran on a Z80 however.
Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by DonHopkins on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:24PM (#33235827)
The home-brew pager (MMU) of the MIT-MC PDP-10 KL10 was appropriately called "KL-UDGE". (KL was the prefix of the PDP-10 model).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge

It's on display at the Paul G. Allen Living Computer Museum.

https://sites.google.com/site/mthompsonorg/Home/pdp-10/pdp-1...

https://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/images/mc-console.jpg

Lars Brinkhoff has taken photos of KL-UDGE blinken lights panel and naked wire wrap boards:

https://twitter.com/larsbrinkhoff/status/1128601896619524097

>Photo 6/7: KL-UDGE lights panel

>Photo 7/7: KL-UDGE boards. Real-time time of day clock?

Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by wk_end on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:57PM (#33238030)
Was on display. The LCM closed due to COVID and there's no indication that it's coming back, sadly.
Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by 300bps on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:42PM (#33237866)
The Commodore 128 had an 8502 CPU, a Z-80 CPU and an 8722 MMU.

Was a pretty popular machine - sold 5.7 units worldwide. But probably only a tiny fraction actually used the CP/M mode that used the Z80.

Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by philistine on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:50PM (#33238662)
I don't know what's more concerning. The fact they only sold 5.7 units, or the fact someone managed to only buy .7 of a Commodore 128.
Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by otto2 on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:00PM (#33241720)
The sixth unit had CP/M disabled, so accountants wrote it down as 0.7 units.
Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by jandrese on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:17PM (#33240808)
Wow, I had no idea there was basically a second computer hiding inside of the C128. No wonder it cost so much.
Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by anticensor on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:38AM (#33247893)
Did you mean 5.7M?
Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] by NegativeLatency on Monday October 17, 2022 @04:44PM (#33239290)
For example a Programmable MMU was an optional add on for the Macintosh II (which wasn’t a z80 but serves to illustrate the time when they began to become available to home computers)