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Article #852Re: P4 vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?
From: Richard E. Hawkins
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:09
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:09
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In article <x5ptyoy413.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> wrote: >It is an 8080 with lots of stuff kludged on. Its design is messy, >but it does not offer anything less than an 8080 does. There is no >reason to be using an 8080 instead of a Z80 that I would know of. Heathkit used an undocumented 8080 instruction in one of its games (chess?), which meant something else on a Z80. However, you could patch the equivelent Z80 program into the binary and the game worked. hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \
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