People buy whatever is cheapest. That’s why the market is flooded.

Lol, why would they push their car to a charging station? Plug the thing in at home.

cool link! (at least if you disregard things I remember being cast as ancient history!)

the 8080 had at least one or two undocumented instructions that worked their way into code. IIRC, the Heathkit chess program needed a byte changed from that to a documented instruction on the Z80 to run [a one byte patch!].

And there were a pair (?) of quirks where 8085 instructions took a cycle ore or less than the the same instruction on the 8080.

The Z80 executed some instructions in less cycles than the 8080 (but wasn't there one that took an extra cycle for some reason?

it was slow, but could be extremely low power compared to the others, and was silly-rich with registers. 16 general purpose 16 bit registers, iirc. (or pairs of eight bit). And ISTR that you could use all but one or two for program counter and reference (a pair of four bit registers [P & X ?] that pointed to which 16 bit to use]

Also, significantly more radiation resistant than the others of the time (or was that another version? Even so, its design should have been more resistant).

My first computer was a wire-wrapped 1802 . . .

My guess would be that 24 bit address space for the MMU, and that this worked better with the Z80.

There were ways to extend the 6809 space by a couple of bits, but not by eight.

The greater abundance of registers on the Z80--including an entire second set of the 8080 registers, which could be toggled between--sounds like a likely reason. IIRC, the 6809 didn't have any extra data registers as compared to the 6800.

hawk

China is about to out capitalism the USA by providing much cheaper products.

The automakers won't be caught off guard this time. Watch for lobbying and smear campaigns.

$70k trucks with beds smaller than a the same model from 30 years ago and $100k SUVs with the all styling of a brick. https://www.caranddriver.com/j...

Exactly. In some states it’s illegal to even sell a new car direct to the public. Legislation designed to prop up the dealership industry. Why compete when you can legislate?

The slashdot crowd and to quote Dean Vernon Wormer “Zero. Point. Zero”

These chemicals take thousands of years to breakdown or disintegrate. That's the problem. Every living thing has them in measurable levels making it impossible to conduct any real studies.

As a long time Android user, no, I do not recall that.

>Of course the VTOL development division can be a completely discrete
>entity from the commercial jet manufacturing side of the business.

[nods]

Yes, ind of like they separate the doors and airframes now . . .

you're both halfway there.

you strap the toast *to* the cat, and it not only can't land, thus elevating, but spins, generating free energy!

Find me the Linux equivalent of SolidWorks.