Date   : Fri, 09 May 1986 19:15:19 GMT
From   : kim%mips.uucp@BRL.ARPA
Subject: Re: V20 emulates 8080 (Re: z80 devel on ibm (&clones))

>>> 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
>>> in any information relating to the following :
>>>   1. Z80 or CP/M cards on IBM-PC.
>>>                   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.
> 
>Correction: The V20 can only emulate an Intel 8080, not a full Z80 instruction
set. 

Quite true!  Rumor has it though that NEC *is* coming out with a Vxx chip
that *will* emulate the Z-80 instruction-set.  I dunno if NEC has made any
public statements about this, but you might give 'em a call and talk to one
of their application engineers, etc.

/kim
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