Perhaps unsurprisingly, neither Z80-RIO nor PLZ were targeting the regular consumer market when they were brought to market in the late 1970s, but were part of Zilog’s focus on industrial ...

[Ted Fried] wrote in with not one but two (2!) new drop-in replacements for widespread old-school CPUs: the Zilog Z80 and the Intel 8088.Both of the “chips” run in cycle-accurate mode as well ...

Those programs were not compatible with its processor. The Zilog Z80 was compatible with programs that ran on Intel 8080 CPUs. Allen believed that an add-in card for the Apple II would allow ...

It was an 8-bit processor, not too dissimilar to the Zilog Z80 chip that I'd spent many years programming before getting a PC. There was a good reason for that similarity: Both processors were ...