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From: dcm@mimir.dmt.oz (Dennis Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Z80 -> 8080 converter
Message-ID: <793@mimir.dmt.oz>
Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 15:52:47 EST
Article-I.D.: mimir.793
Posted: Wed Jan 14 15:52:47 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Jan-87 00:57:44 EST
References: <249@rocksanne.UUCP> <175@herman.UUCP>
Organization: CSIRO Manufacturing Technology, Melbourne
Lines: 16
Keywords: Z80 8080 converter
Summary: not quite..

In article <175@herman.UUCP>, det@herman.UUCP (Derek Terveer) writes:
> I believe that z80 has a mere two instructions that 8080 doesn't have.
> Therefore, most likely, your z80 program will run unchanged with the 8080
> assembler (I hope i'm right in this).

Sorry...you're not! The Z80 has quite a considerable number of instructions
in addition to the 8080 ones, a large number of which are the consequence
of architectural differences such as index registers etc etc which the
Z80 has and the 8080 does not.

Dennis
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