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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Z-80 et al.
Message-ID: <5017@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 89 20:00:24 GMT
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References:<6901@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4952@internal.Apple.COM> <1989Nov1.025315.5784@NCoast.ORG>

In article <1989Nov1.025315.5784@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon 
S. Allbery) writes:
> As quoted from <4952@internal.Apple.COM> by chewy@apple.com (Paul 
Snively):
> +---------------
> | long time, since I moved to this family from the Z-80!  (Anyone else 
here 
> | remember the mighty Z-80)?
> +---------------
> 
> Yup; it was the first processor I worked with (the second being a 6502 
on an
> OSI Superboard II, the third being the 68000 on "ncoast" revisions 1-4).

I worked on a project at MIT that used an 8080.  We programmed it in 
assembler using a cross-development system on a PDP-11.  (It was a giant 
electronic message board with 4,800 LEDs.)



Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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