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fromTheregister
1 week ago

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation - the last Z80 computer

Pleban's talk, "Hacking the last Z80 computer ever made," was more than just a dive into retro computing. It also explored some of the many strange decisions involved in launching a new range of hardware based on the eight-bit Zilog Z80 chip in 1999 - when the 16-bit computer era was largely over, and just a couple of years before 32-bit x86 chips would be replaced by x86-64.
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fromTheregister
7 months ago

Dev ported DB coded in SAP's ABAP to a ZX Spectrum emulator

Alice Vinogradova ported her ABAP database ZVDB to the Z80 processor, achieving remarkable performance with timeless optimization techniques.
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