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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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