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  • [Hackaday] End-Of-Life For Z80 CPU And Peripherals Announced

    From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to comp.os.cpm on Sat Apr 20 00:32:12 2024
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    Hackaday
    End-Of-Life For Z80 CPU And Peripherals Announced <https://hackaday.com/2024/04/19/end-of-life-for-z80-cpu-and-peripherals-announced/>
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  • From Nils M Holm@nmh@sraddha.invalid to comp.os.cpm on Sun Apr 21 10:03:48 2024
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    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
    Hackaday
    End-Of-Life For Z80 CPU And Peripherals Announced <https://hackaday.com/2024/04/19/end-of-life-for-z80-cpu-and-peripherals-announced/>


    Makes me a bit sad. The end of an era.

    Looks like the eZ80 will be around for a while, though. Has anybody
    tried replacing a Z80 with an eZ80? Was it complicated? Did id work?
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to comp.os.cpm on Sun Apr 28 13:58:24 2024
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    Hackaday
    The Z80 Is Dead. Long Live The Free Z80! <https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/the-z80-is-dead-long-live-the-free-z80/>
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  • From jeffj@jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) to comp.os.cpm on Sun Jun 9 01:38:37 2024
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    End-Of-Life For Z80 CPU And Peripherals Announced
    <https://hackaday.com/2024/04/19/end-of-life-for-z80-cpu-and-peripherals-announced/>

    Makes me a bit sad. The end of an era.

    Me too.
    The original Z80 and peripherals were like Lego.
    They just snapped together with just address decoding
    when using interrupt mode 2.

    Looks like the eZ80 will be around for a while, though. Has anybody
    tried replacing a Z80 with an eZ80? Was it complicated? Did id work?

    The eZ80 is very different architecture, pinout and bus interface :-(
    Not as simple and fun as the Z80.
    I tried several eZ80 kits only to give up.
    I was discouraged by the lack of Zilog support
    particularly as the yahoo groups errata & bug reports piled up.
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