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Re:The Agon light is the fastest 8-bit microcomputer by zokier on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:32PM (#34660631)
It feels especially silly when it has modern 240 MHz ESP32 instead on-board, as if it is somehow more authentic than a FPGA.
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Re:The Agon light is the fastest 8-bit microcomputer by musicale on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:23PM (#34661013)
Presumably you could do a cycle-accurate EZ80 implementation on the ESP32 as well.

If the cycle timing and user-facing I/O pins are the same, the main differences resulting from implementation would presumably be in areas like form factor and power dissipation.

I'm sure I've seen ESP32-based emulators running CP/M (or DOS for that matter) discussed on HN and elsewhere.

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