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They're not as common reasons. But yes, if you want to program your TRS-80 (but only the original: later ones were 6502), or your ZX* (How many of you lot know
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
They're not as common reasons.
But yes, if you want to program your TRS-80 (but only the original: later ones were 6502), or your ZX* (How many of you lot know the ZX line? Spectrum? No?), or your Game Gear, or your Master System, or any of the various CP/M machines, you have to learn Z80.
- userbinator 10y agoHow many of you lot know the ZX line? Spectrum? No? The ZX Spectrum and its clones were very popular in the UK, Eastern Europe, and the former USSR.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYeah. AFAICT, most of HN (myself included) is US based. So I was curious.
- pjmlp 10y agoThey also ruled in Portugal and Spain. Almost no C64 in sight beyond a few computer magazines.
- mangamadaiyan 10y ago... and for a brief period of time in the late '80s, "popular" in India as well. (I quoted popular because they were bloody expensive. In 7th grade, a kid in my class had one. He was the only one in all of the school to have a computer.).
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoHuh. The Spectrum was popular elswhere because it was so comically cheap.
- mangamadaiyan 10y agoRelatively speaking. It was definitely much cheaper than a PC Clone with an 80286 processor, but expensive enough to be a luxury, I think.