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Subject: V20 emulates 8080 (Re: z80 devel on ibm (&clones))
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 15:01:36 EDT
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>> I am in a situaion where I need to develop code on an IBM-PC but the
>> debugged code is going to run on a custom Z80 board. I am interested
>> in any information relating to the following :
>> 
>> 	1. Z80 or CP/M cards on IBM-PC.
>> 	2. Cross-compiler or cross-assembler between 8088 and Z80.
>> 	3. 1Mbit EPROM or EEPROM burner with interface to IBM-PC.
>> 	   develop, download, and debug code on IBM-PC for Z80 CPU.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 			Alex Hwang
>
>The cheapest solution is to replace your 8088 with the NEC V20 chip.
>Besides having a superset of the 8088 instruction set it has an internal
>z80 emulator, allowing direct running of z80 software.
>

Correction: The V20 can only emulate an Intel 8080, not a full Z80 instruction set.