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From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin Kissell)
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Subject: Re: Z80 book by Zaks
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 14:05:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 14:05:57 1983
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The Zaks book may very well contain errors about condition flags.  On
the other hand, so does *every* edition of the Z80 CPU manual I've seen.
These usually relate to the state of the carry flag after arithmetic
operations.  The behavior of the chip is more rational than the documentation
suggests.  I always thought that Kaite Spracklin (sp?) wrote the best of those
books, but then I've never actually *used* any of these as a intro, having 
learned the machine before any of them were available.
		
		Kevin D. Kissell
		Fairchild R&D Labs,
		Advanced Processor Development
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