Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!LYNX.NORTHEASTERN.EDU!tmetro From: tmetro@LYNX.NORTHEASTERN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Z8000 Message-ID:Date: 18 Sep 88 19:26:54 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 Lance Hendrix writes: > I have been looking for information on the Z8000 series chips. I have > heard that the new z8000 can replace the z80 one for one. I have even > wrote Zilog for the this info, but they have not answered my letter. > The local dealers can not either deny/confirm the existance of these > chips. I want to know if these chips are pin compatable????? Thomas C. Murphy writes: > Last I heard, the Z80 and Z8000 have little in common except 3 characters. > The Z8000 is a 16-bit chip, isn't it? Information on the Z8000 series of IC's can be found in the Zilog (408 370-8000) "Z8 Family Design Handbook." The Z8 family consists of several 8-bit Microcomputers (MCU's) some even including BASIC interpreters. Seeing as the Z80 is a CPU and the Z8 series are MCUs (containing extra functions such as RAM/ROM/EPROM/UART/etc.) it is unlikely that you will find one that is pin compatable. ___________ ./ Tom Metro \_____________________________________________________________. | _ _ | | INET: tmetro@pro-angmar.uucp --/\/\_| |_| '- DigiTell, Inc. | | ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-angmar!tmetro@nosc.mil Newton, MA | | UUCP: [ihnp4 sdcsvax nosc]!crash!pnet01!pro%angmar!tmetro | |_Alternate: tmetro@lynx.northeastern.edu__________________________________|