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From: elg@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Zilog Z80,000
Message-ID: <4895@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 23 Jul 88 05:59:15 GMT
References: <22436@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <22436@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) says:
> 

What I heard somewhere: (possibly just rumor):
The 80K was to be a hardwired-logic (as vs. microcoded) 32-bit
microprocessor. They had it up to the silicon stage when the chief
designer left to go to another company. They found bugs in the initial
test run (not unusual -- just ask Intel about the 80386!).  But they
could never find the bugs, and, in fact, had difficulty simply
understanding some of the things that the long-departed designer had
done. According to rumor, they eventually had to scrap the whole
project and start over from scratch again, whereupon Zilog's financial
problems precluded any swift redesign....

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