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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:17:09 GMT
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- In article <9207201042.AA09020@LL.MIT.EDU>, sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage) writes:
- >
- >
- > On the subject of undocumented Z80 opcodes, Dag Erik Lindberg recently
- > wrote, "Zilog recognized that some useful things could be done with those
- > op-codes, but flat stated that if their manufacturing process changed, or
- > micro-code was modified, those op-codes may not work any more.
- ...
- > Not at all! The Z80 was far from dead-ended. The Z180 and Z280 chips
- > have followed it. Both are Z80-code-compatible. They are supposed to run
- > everything written properly for the Z80. Thus, they are not guaranteed to
- > run programs that used the undocumented codes (and I don't know if the Z180
- > or Z280 run those codes or not).
- >
- Both the '180 and '280 have expanded instruction sets that make use of
- the so-called un-documented instructions, particularly in the ED-xx
- group...
-
- Willy
-