amoroso, to random
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This old paper tells the history of early Intel CPUs and discusses their features and major design decisions: the 8008, 8080, 8085, and 8086. The paper provides interesting technical and historical tidbits, such as the reason why the 8008 was little endian and hence later CPUs.

https://www.stevemorse.org/8086history/8086history.pdf

amoroso, to random
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Dasm8080 is a great Intel 8080 disassembler with nice features such as the visualization of bit patterns and the detection of opcode and data sections.

https://github.com/CineEncoder/dasm8080

amoroso, to retrocomputing
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EmuStudio is an excellent emulator and Assembly IDE for a number of 8-bit CPUs and historical microcomputers such as the Z80, 8080, 8008, and Altair 8800.

I finally got a chance to try the latest release and it's greatly improved. For example, the ADM-3A terminal emulator features a slick replica of the original font as in this screenshot of emuStudio under Crostini Linux on my Chromebox.

https://www.emustudio.net

amoroso, to random
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Now that Zilog discoutinued the most iconic version of the Z80, what about the 8080? Does Intel still manufacture it? Are there other sources?

At least the Nec V20/V30 may still be available. I hope this related and historically significant CPU will stick around for a bit more.

amoroso, to quantumcomputing
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Running 8080/Z80 code on a quantum computer, because why not? Is a CP/M port coming next?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9878250

amoroso, to retrocomputing
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"A Programmer's Notebook: Utilities for CP/M-80" by David Cortesi (Reston, 1982) is excellent. The book presents a number of utilities in Intel 8080 Assembly, discussing the development of each program from the initial design and pseudocode to the full code.

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5093111W/A_Programmer%27s_Notebook?edition=ia%3Aprogrammersnoteb00cort

Wintermute_BBS, (edited ) to Software

You are new to CP/M and don't know where to find documentation and software?

Then this toot may be of value for you, 'coz here's three important links on the topic. Please boost so CP/M newbies will notice this important information.

Humongous CP/M Archives (tons of software etc. - go here first!):

http://cpmarchives.classiccmp.org/

Commercial CP/M Software Archive (go there next):

http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/

Gaby Z80 / CP/M Pages (comprehensive information, documentation, source codes and binaries):

http://www.gaby.de/ecpm.htm















p.s.: .oO(hope you people find this information useful)

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Magnetic Bubble Memory Brought to Life on Heathkit - There are all kinds of technology that appear through the ages that find immediate... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/09/magnetic-bubble-memory-brought-to-life-on-heathkit/

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