maxwell@orphan.DEC (04/19/85)
For the last couple of years, I've been drooling over what little information I've been able to gather about Zilog's Z80 descendant
bobd@zaphod.UUCP (Bob Dalgleish) (04/23/85)
No dope: 1) Zilog is currently working on both the Z80000 and the Z800 2) The Z80000 is "important for Zilog's future placement in the 32 bit market". 3) Consequently, the Z800 won't come out before the Z80000 sees actual silicon. I think Zilog is really getting prepared to blow it with this setup. The Z800 is a real honey of a processor. If it had been available four years ago, I and other right thinking software people would not be scared of having to program on iAPX86's. It has the speed, it has the instruction set, and it might have the engineering to take care of a lot of the things the Z80 didn't have the horsepower to do. However, the pressures of marketing and limited resources means they are going to go with the biggy rather than the small one. Ah well, what can you do?!? -- [The opinions expressed here are only loosely based on the facts] Bob Dalgleish ...!alberta!sask!zaphod!bobd ihnp4! (My company has disclaimed any knowledge of me and whatever I might say)