On Sunday, April 03, 2011 05:17:54 AM Alan Cox wrote:
Still lots of Z80 based ones around in the UK too where the protocol
work
is done on a magic box on a serial port - never seen anything running
CP/M however, the stuff I've seen all runs raw on the hardware.
Lots of DVD drives use the Z80 and the successor chips (Z180, Z280, eZ80, etc), as have
multiple manuafacturer's hard drives.... see the Z80 wikipedia article for many more.
As an old Z80 hack, it's nice to know that skills I picked up as a teenager might
still be marketable......I can put on my resume 'wrote a Z80 disassembler in
hexadecimal in less than 2K' with a straight face. What I can't/won't do is
put with it 'at age 16, in high school, on my free time.' as then it sounds
ridiculous..... even though it would be quite true.
Way way OT.... at least until Fedora runs on a eZ80, that is.