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- From: dmoorman@csn.net (David Moorman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: I know there's a Z80 there somewhere!
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 08:23:30 GMT
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- Jouko Valta (jopi@stekt.oulu.fi) wrote:
- : >>>>> "David" == David Moorman <dmoorman@csn.net> writes:
- : David> About the only thing that such a switch might be good for
- : David> is the Z80 block move. You fill four registers and give it
- : David> a go -- WHAM! A lot of memory moves damn-fast.
-
- : Nope.
- : On the C128 it's damn slow... after all it's clocked of _less_ than 2MHz!
-
- : (For Z80 the minimum usable clock speed would be 4MHz and the maximum
- : speed is 16MHz for the H model.)
-
- Ah -- Gee! And the Z80 chip was the reason I bought a C-128
- in the first place (1986 -- to replace a long over-used TRS-80).
-
- Funny -- never DID get around to using CPM or whatever. Actually
- became a hard-core 64 user.
-
- Dave
-