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Zilog To File For Chapter 11

Posted by Hemos on Friday December 7, 2001 @05:39AM 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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Great Taste... by shakamojo · 2001-12-07 05:46 · Score: -1, Troll

...less filling. "is filling for Chapter 11 ..."
It's funny how only now by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-07 05:47 · Score: -1, Troll

Java is approaching the levels of performance the Z80 achieved 15 years ago. I'll take an accumulator and a Y register over a fancy smancy garbage collector any day.