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To: pgerassi who wrote (226260)	2/17/2007 11:44:49 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Pete, > The x86 CPU market hasn't been free for a long time. Break free, Pete. You have nothing to lose but your chains! Tenchusatsu

To: pgerassi who wrote (226260)	2/18/2007 3:07:51 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: THe latter had the best 8 bit version the famous Z80 and extended it to 16 bits and a flat memory model of 16MB too. I don't recall, if it came with an MMU or FPU. It had an MMU but not an FPU - most serious systems of that time used AMD's 29xx family for floating point including HP Vax, Sun, and Data General. I double-checked my old copy of Richard Mateosian's book on programming the Z8000 (a classic). I have an old sun floating point accelerator board (a 6U VME board) mounted on the wall in my study (as an object d'art) that uses an array of AMD 29705 bit-slice chips. When we pulled it to excess it, it was working fine. It's flanked by a pair of the old "SiRiUS" memory boards. Regards, Dan