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Narishma on Dec 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop

> I feel fortunate to have skipped the 8088 and 80286 PCs which all ran slower than my Z-80B for most things.

I might believe that compared to an 8088 running at 4.77 Mhz like in the original PC but the 286 is in another league entirely.

anonymousiam on Dec 24, 2019 [–]

The original IBM AT computers ran at 6MHz. (They later upped this to 8MHz.) Even at 6MHz and a 16-bit bus, they were very close to the same performance of a 4MHz Z-80A.

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