Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!sei!sei.cmu.edu!firth From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Zilog Z320 32-bit chip Message-ID: <3521@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 10 Dec 87 19:57:55 GMT References: <1911@ho95e.ATT.COM> <9071@utzoo.UUCP> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu Reply-To: firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, SEI, Pgh, Pa Lines: 8 In article <9071@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >Before you pin too many hopes on the Z320, check out the history of the >Z80000 (four zeros, not three). Talk about vaporware... "Z80,000 CPU Preliminary Technical Manual", and the text uniformly has that comma in the name. My copy is dated September 1984, one of the very few that escaped. It looked pretty good at the time, apart from the Z8000 upward compatibility features.