Gregory's ServerRIP Z80. May your opcodes live forever in our hearts.
> Z80 Product Line: Z85C00 End of Life. https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf
(The Z80 was the second microprocessor I ever wrote Assembly to target – the 6502 being the first.)
Jack William Bell
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Jack William Bell
Apparently there will still be some devices with an embedded Z80 in them, but as a discrete component it will soon be no longer available. I guess I can finally give up on the stupid dream I had of building a massively multiparallel Z80 machine with 65,535 CPUs. 
Luci for dyeing
@jackwilliambell @emma also, near as i can tell the backwards compatible ez80 has not been discontinued 
Johannes Ernst
@jackwilliambell I learned assembly on a Z80. Hand-translated assembly that is because I couldn’t afford buying an assembler … but I had a disassembler! Which I got by typing it in (yes!) in hex that was published in a book!!
Jack William Bell
That's the way REAL PROGRAMMERS do it! I did some 6502 that way, to use with BLOAD in BASIC. But CP/M (which I was using for my first Z80 machine) had an assembler, dissasembler and debugger. And a line editor! |
@jackwilliambell noooooooo!