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From: doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors (History)
Message-ID: <923@edge.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 19:56:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: edge.923
Posted: Mon Aug 24 19:56:36 1987
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Organization: Edge Computer Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ
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Summary: More nit-picking

> First, the Z80 is not an Intel chip, it's Zilog, a company started by Intel
> renegades.  I seem to recall that when CP/M was *the* micro OS, the Z80 was
> *the* chip.

Indeed so.  And the reason the Z-80 was so popular was that it had the 7-bit
on-chip refresh counter, so that you could easily design a system which used
those huge huge huge unbelievably enormous 16K dynamic RAMs instead of the
usual 1K static RAMS!
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Doug Pardee, Edge Computer Corp; ihnp4!mot!edge!doug, seismo!ism780c!edge!doug