Authors
Michael Rulison
Publication
Pub Details
The Data Expansion v5 n3
Volume:
5
Issue:
3
Date
March 1988
Pages
10-11
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CP/M is dead; long live CP/M.
Just as the funeral peroration for CP/M was fading in our ears, there came a small jubilant horn toot out ot the south-west and west (Dallas and Los Altos) reporting sightings of unusual news from Winnipeg about products from Redding and Campbell (Californias, you all!).
To wit: Zilog, Inc., has (will?) release(d) the Z280 chip: a super extension of the Z80, 40+ new instructions, clock rates exceeding 10 megahertz, 16 Megabytes of memory space addressable, 8-bit Z80 bus or 15-bit Zilog Z-bus. A true 16-bit chip, but runs Z80 code.