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From: neal@lynx.uucp (Neal Woodall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: New processor rumour
Summary: "new" Zilog products....
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Date: 6 Apr 89 01:46:05 GMT
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In article <2259@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes:

>Z80180 (a.k.a Z180?):	("Product Specification")

This is indeed the Z180...a.k.a. the Hitachi 68180. One of the interesting
things about this processor is that it executes many of the instructions
in fewer cycles than the Z80...so it gets a speed improvement 2 ways: faster
clock and executes in fewer cycles.

>Z280:	("Preliminary Product Specification")

I first heard about this one when I was an undergrad! It has been in
"pre-release" mode for about 6 years! The Z280 is the updated name for
the Z800...I think that there are actually chips available, but the first
ones have problems with the cache.



Neal