> I know a lot of Z80s were manufactured, and I guess you might even be
> able to find the odd one still in use somewhere (NASA's immensely
> successful Voyager spacecraft use an even more primitive
> microprocessor), but I reckon that, for LL tests, the combined power
> of all the Z80s ever manufactured is less than that of a couple of
> today's standard desktop PCs.
I believe that they've made over a billion Z80s already. I know they
were still making them a few years ago for embedded application use.
In fact, I have one in my 486...located on the Adaptec 1542C scsi
adapter. I know, not the same as being in a TRS-80.
> Based on the fact that Intel are apparently holding back the 100MHz
> FSB versions of the Celeron until Feb 2000 (according to August's
> "Personal Computer World" which arrived with me today) - the theory
> is that Intel don't want to undermine the PII/PIII market - I would
133 MHz FSB PIII machines are expected later this year. Celerons
will always be a step down from PIII (and plain PIII will always be
a step down from the Xeon models).
-roger
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