<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Well, that is a pretty good run. It will always be available in emulation or FPGA fabric.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">RIP Captain Zilog.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 12:27 AM, Mike Lisanke via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Z80 was the first (of many CPUs) I had in my earliest personal computer. And I had it about 45 years ago! <div>That PC was the Exidy Sorcerer. And I used many other CPUs of the time in SBCs. And eventually did a lot with 6502 in Atari. </div><div>I suspect they only end a CPUs life when the last integrator stops using it. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong dir="auto" class="gmail_sendername">jong kung via <a href="http://groups.io" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">groups.io</a></strong> <span dir="auto"><jongkung01=<a href="mailto:hotmail.com@groups.io" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hotmail.com@groups.io</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:10 AM<br>Subject: [electronics101] Z80 discontinued (announced in April)<br>To: <<a href="mailto:electronics101@groups.io" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">electronics101@groups.io</a>><br></div><br><br>Hi guys,<br>
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I’m sure many of you already heard. But I just heard this and I thought I’ll pass it on.<br>
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<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://www.techspot.com/news/102684-zilog-discontinuing-z80-microprocessor-after-almost-50-years.html">https://www.techspot.com/news/102684-zilog-discontinuing-z80-microprocessor-after-almost-50-years.html</a><br>
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The post was made in April 2024. I knew some variant of 6502 was still being made but I didn’t know z80 was being made (until now).<br>
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