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RE: How big is Euphoria clan

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Mar 21, 2001
• 452 views

Hey there,

Travis Beaty wrote:
> Good grief, Leviathan.  You do know how to make a man feel older than 
> the
> hills, don't you?  Gee, thanks, buddy.
> 
> LOL  
> 
> Oh, for the good old days of the TRS-80, the Apple //c, and 6502 ASM.
> 
> Happy Hunting,
> 
> Travis Beaty (Age 31)
> Claude, Texas.
> 

I had (have) a TRS-80 and designed a motherboard about
4 x 6 inches that could do everything the TRS-80 could
do, by connecting it to the parallel port and uploading
programs.  The heart of it was also a Z80 cpu (hee hee).
Back then the big argument was "large instruction set
and slower speed" vs "small instruction set and faster speed".
Today we seem to have both?
Since then Zilog came out with faster cpu's along the
same lines as the Z80 (Z180,Z380)but that technology certainly isnt
in vogue anymore, at least for PC's that i know of.
I seriously doubt if you could ever use Euphoria with one
of those things without major changes.
Interesting thing though, some of the TI engineering calculators
have a Z80 based embedded processor! The max speed really 
hurts them though, being something like 33MHz with 16bit.
The 32 bit cpu model goes up to a whopping 18MHz (hee hee).

Dont know what the heck im going to do with that old thing now
either.  Oh, wait i know, i might go fishing this summer 
a few times, and i could use another boat anchor, hmmm.
Think it will sink?



--Al