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Zilog To File For Chapter 11

Posted by Hemos on from the death-of-the-old-timers dept.

Frédéric writes: "The venerable company ZiLOG who was founded in 1974, and who brought us the famous Z80 CPU (used in the Timex/Sinclair ZX80/ZX81, and the Amstrad CPC/PCW computers), is filling for Chapter 11 ... I didn't find the today's news on the web, but found this article at Silicon Strategy and this one at Electronics times, which was written a few days ago to announce it."

3 of 255 comments (clear)

  1. best z80 instruction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    was MBSSR (make baloney sandwich and shift right one bit)

  2. double take. by raindog151 · · Score: 2, Funny

    when i first reloaded the page, i saw the Z in Zilog and thought, 'Jesus! Zapmedia went out of business already? Now that's some /. effect.'

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  3. Re:Z80 had elegant assembly by JimPooley · · Score: 3, Funny

    6809 RULES!

    Ahem. I had a 6809 machine once, and it was a pleasure to program in assembly. 6809 also had OS/9, a multi-user multi-tasking OS which was better than any other OS for a system of the period.

    And you can't dislike a processor with the opcodes BRA and SEX!

    (BRanch Always, and Sign EXtend, as if you didn't know.)

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