Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode
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by tasty_freeze
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Despite what the article says, the 68000 was microcoded too. Another difference is that the 68K was a 32b architecture, not 16b, and that required investing more transistors for the register file and datapath.
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by CodeWriter23
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"Oddball string instructions", as an assembler coder bitd, they were a welcome feature as opposed to running out of registers and/or crashing the stack with a Z-80.
by MarkusQ
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Did anyone else read the headline and think....Zilog? WTF?
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