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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: Zilog Z320 32-bit chip
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Date: 10 Dec 87 19:57:55 GMT
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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.