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The 8080 and 8086 designs draw directly from Z80. You can see it in the assembler mnemonics and how the operands are handled. And segmented memory access, oh my

The 8080 and 8086 designs draw directly from Z80. You can see it in the assembler mnemonics and how the operands are handled. And segmented memory access, oh my!

rbanffy 9y ago
The 8080 predates the Z-80 by about two years.
- rootbear 9y ago
  He likely meant the 8086 and 8088.
  - rbanffy 9y ago
    That's possible, but, still, even though I find the Z-80 a rather kludgy and inefficient thing (compared to the simplicity of the 6502 and the 6502 machines we had at the time), if felt much neater than the 8086 family.