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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."

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  1. Take off every Zilog by MrFredBloggs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For great sounds

  2. AMD are you watching this? by AB3A · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just remember what business you're in. You've got to do more than just one-up Intel. You have to keep at it while consistently beating them to the punch.

    And all it takes is just one screwup like the Z8k and you're history. Intel is the M$ of the processor market and they're not going to fall on their faces because of a one trick wonder...

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  3. Re:$280M debt? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's evident that you're not trolling, but simply making your ignorance evident. If you've read a few of the messages in this thread, you might've noticed that the Z80 is still quite popular in the embedded market. But all say that, this is Slashdot! and where there is slashdot, there are MORONS !

  4. LOSER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what a loser

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    Free domain names, $$$-free and restriction-free. Cool aTLDs, that make sense. Built in DynDNS. http://www.freenic.ntwrk

    Just so you know, no one can actualy get to the URL you have posted unless they've already hooked up to your DNS servers.

    Or is it a joke?

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  6. I just bought a brand new Z80 product... by Wraithlyn · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    ...the Sharp Wizard OZ-770PC. It's amazing! 3MB of flash ram, qwerty keyboard, proportional fonts, you can code in raw Z80 assembler for it, plus they have versions of C and BASIC for it. Tons of user written programs on the net. (MyWizard.com and many other sites) Best $100 I ever spent. I much prefer this design to a Palm-style tablet. Here is a good picture.

    And no, I am not affiliated with Sharp or Amazon ;)

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  7. hahaha by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    thats funny dude :P

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