Zilog Z80 discontinued after nearly 50 years

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(06-01-2024 08:18 PM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  Instead, he envisioned a microcontroller for cash registers, home electronics, home appliances, automobiles, and industrial machines—just about everywhere except personal computers.

More recently, Java was first designed to run on embedded systems and its success came from its use on classic computers, mainly servers now.

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