Date   : Mon, 05 May 1986 16:34:00 EST
From   : SECRIST%OAK.SAINET.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA
Subject: Z80 development on IBM-PCs

From:    <SECRIST%OAK.SAINET.MFENET@LLL-MFE.Arpa>   (Richard C. Secrist)
Date:    Mon,  5-MAY-1986 16:35 EST
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>       In article <2763@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, alex@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alex Hwang) writes:
>       > I am in a situaion where I need to develop code on an IBM-PC but the
>       > debugged code is going to run on a custom Z80 board. I am interested
>                                       ...
>                                       ...
>       > 
>       >                       Alex Hwang
>
>       The cheapest solution is to replace your 8088 with the NEC V20 chip.
>       Besides having a superset of the 8088 instruction set it has an
internal
>       z80 emulator, allowing direct running of z80 software.
>       Regards, der

Actually the V20 and V30 chips include a more efficient 8088 instruction set,
and since they had some room left over, NEC included the 8080 instruction set
(not the Z80).

Richard
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