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4 unusual facts about Zilog


Ithaca Intersystems

As a large commercial success, the company moved to larger spaces outside of town, and designed and produced a larger system, the Zilog Z8002-based DPS-8000.

Mostek

Mostek cut a deal with a startup, Zilog, in which Mostek provided fab resources to manufacture the Zilog microprocessors in return for second sourcing rights to the Zilog family.

Sucat railway station

Further away from the station are Our Lady of Miraculous Medal National Shrine, St. James College of ParaƱaque, Sucat Elementary School, Cupang Elementary School, the Muntinlupa Business High School, a Makro, the Philippine headquarters of Zilog, housing developments such as Posadas Village and the Tribeca Private Residences, and cemeteries such as the Loyola Memorial Park and the Manila Memorial Park.

Synchronous Data Link Control

Other vendors putting hardware support for SDLC (and the slightly different HDLC) into communication controller chips of the 1980s included Intel, Zilog, Motorola, and National Semiconductor.


Judith Estrin

After Stanford she worked at Zilog Corporation, where she contributed to the design of the Z8 and Z8000 microprocessors and led the team that developed one of the first commercial local area network systems called Z-net.

TI-84 Plus series

Several attempts have been made at creating a C to Zilog Z80 assembly assemblers, such as SDCC.

Zilog Z280

Zilog added a memory management unit (MMU) to expand the addressing range to 16 MB, features for multitasking and multiprocessor and coprocessor configurations, a 256 byte cache, and a huge number of new instructions and addressing modes (giving a total of over 2000 combinations).


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