Intel 8080
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The Intel 8080 was the microprocessor CPU that was popularized by CP/M machines with the S-100 bus; it was the first 'open' home computer standard before the introduction of the IBM PC. The 8080 was an evolution of the Intel 8008, the first ever microprocessor; the Intel x86 line developed from the 8080.
The 8080 design was licensed out to various other companies for fabrication, and the design was even stolen to be manufactured in Poland, East Germany & Russia.
The Zilog Z80 CPU was based on the 8080, and provides a superset of the 8080 ISA.
External links
- Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8080 Microprocessor
- The 8008 & The 8080
- The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the (almost) first, forgotten microprocessor - Ken Shirriff's article about the first microprocessors, covers the 8080 also
- Wikichip Intel 8080
