Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!diab!pf
From: pf@diab.se (Per Fogelstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Mythical microprocessors
Message-ID: <410@ma.diab.se>
Date: 3 Aug 88 10:34:08 GMT
References: <677@buengc.BU.EDU> <7650005@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: pf@ma.UUCP (Per Fogelstr|m)
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In article <7650005@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) writes:
>As I recall (my memory may be faulty...) they had massive production problems
>with the Z80000, and the chip was very expensive, and some intructions didn't
>work, and....  it eventually just died a quit death...
>	_DHMS
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Would you belive it ! It's not "Dead". It has been repacked into something
called Z320 (i'm not really shure about the name) and called the first
micro for $1 a bit ($32 for a 32bit micro). The target market for this
processor, as i understand , is the "Embedded controller market". Well
Zilog is not the first :-).