ajparent1/kb1gmx wrote:
FYI 64180 and Z180 are to most still a z80 and programs at the
application level (CP/M) the same.
Yes. Besides the P112, there have in fact been many follow-in enhancements to the Z80 family. The current TI-84 calculators still use them today.
Z180/64180 were z80s aka 8-bitters. 8088 and z8000 and 68000 were bigger
word size and minimally 16-bit.
Sort of... 8- vs. 16-bit is a blurry line. It's hard to call the 8088 a 16-bit CPU, except in marketing. At the same clock speed, the Z80 easily out-performed it. The Z180 was even faster, and had a bigger address space as well.
8088 was Totally program (binary) incompatable. But it was a thing.
Yep. Marketing over engineering.
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