Re: A bit more on bits...

[Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>]

Thanks. A new rabbit hole to go down :)

On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 at 02:57, Scott Morgan <blumf@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 16/02/2023 22:48, Sean Conner wrote:
>    And Zilog added a few registers and instructions over the 8080.  And then
> the 8086 comes along, and while it's neither binary compatiable nor software
> compatible, one could mechanically translate 8080/Z80 code to the
> 8086---this was how much of the early software for the 8086 was done.

To add more noise. There's the often forgotten 8085 processor that was
very close to the Z80.