yes you can, but you would be shorting yourself. the 8080a has something like 87
instuctions, while the z80 has 158 instructions in its set. zilog has a web
site(www.zilog.com) that should have more info on it.
"Louis P. Santillan" wrote:
> Oops...Z80 can deal with 8080A binaries...
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> "It's not about the money...It's about the rules. Without rules,
> we might as well be tree climbers flinging crap at each other."
> - Red Foreman of That '70s Show
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Louis P. Santillan wrote:
>
> > I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again???
> >
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> > "It's not about the money...It's about the rules. Without rules,
> > we might as well be tree climbers flinging crap at each other."
> > - Red Foreman of That '70s Show
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> >
> > > Louis P. Santillan writes:
> > > >
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Any word on someone trying to port ELKS to the new "upgradable" TI's, like
> > > > the 83 and 85/86 (not sure which)? That would be cool. They are called
> > > > the plus series I believe.
> > > >
> > >
> > > >From TIs web site it looks as though these machines have Z80 processors,
> > > and as far as I know there is no Z80 port of Linux yet. In any case it us
> > > unlikely that any unix like system will run on a machine with this little
> > > RAM and no storage.
> > >
> > > Al
> > >
> >
> >