[geeks] cool webulation idea

David Cantrell geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Dec 5 16:26:38 CST 2001


On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:01:04PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:02:58PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > 8080 is a subset of Z80, and there are *plenty* of Z80 emulators out
> > there.  There's also copious documentation of the Z80 instruction set.
> > I imagine that at least some of them will note which instructions are
> > also available on the 8080.
> Err, I was under the impression that the Z80 was a clone of the 8080 with 
> extensions, rather than one being a subset of the other.

You're right, but as far as an emulator is concerned, the two descriptions
are equivalent.

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