[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

2024-04-22 Thread Lamar Owen via cctalk
On 4/22/24 14:09, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Would it not be possible to use something like a Blue Pill to make a small board (small enough to actually fit in the CPU socket) that emulated these old CPUs?  Definitely enough horse power just wondered if there was enough room for the

[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

2024-04-22 Thread Lamar Owen via cctalk
On 4/22/24 12:18, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: I don't know if this applies to the Z80, but on the 8080, 16-bit increment/decrement is handled by a separate increment block (also used to advance the P-counter and stack operations). Probably one of the reasons that INX/DCX doesn't set any

[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

2024-04-22 Thread Lamar Owen via cctalk
On 4/21/24 20:06, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: Why is that? Did the Z80 take more cycles to implement it's more complex instructions? Is this an early example of RISC vs CISC? Z80 is blessed with a 4-bit ALU, verified by reverse engineering dieshots (

Re: TRS-80 Model IV PALs

2019-12-05 Thread Lamar Owen via cctalk
On 12/5/19 12:39 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: Last year I read most of the PALs and HALs of a TRS-80 Model 16B main board (same as Model 12 main board). I was surprised that none of the PALs were protected, and even more surprised that some (but not all) of the HALs could be read as PALs.

Re: P112

2019-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen via cctalk
On 11/29/19 7:01 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Let's try again with the right name in the Subject line! It's not really classic (although it does try to pretend to be but does anyone here do anything with the P112 SBC? I am trying to get 8" disks running on it but I am seeing some