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After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (arstechnica.com)
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[–] kender242@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Shout out to the Ti-8X users and anyone who remembers zshell.

I doubt this announcement is going to affect the calculators, but it's amazing to see how many things still run off this technology.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

TI uses an outside vendor, SK Hynix I believe, for their calculator chips. Z80 isn't going anywhere.

It is worrying though since I follow Collapse OS and a lot of its design aims at the Z80 due to its abundance. Killing off the DIP Z80 gives me some pause.

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Wow, collapse OS is quite the rabbit hole. Makes me think of the bootstrapping work described in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_the_Sky

[–] Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Think of all the arcade boards!!!!

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would it be possible to come up with an FPGA solution for things like that?

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm certain the FPGA implementations exist going off MiSTer.

[–] Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

My mister plays 100+ different arcade boards/games. There is also a yet to be released MARS FPGA system which will play Dreamcast + systems.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

Anyone in need of a DIP socket compatible breakout module with a microcontroller emulating a Z80? That doesn't sound too hard to design and build.