Z80 Divide by 10

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Mon Jan 28 17:29:16 CST 2008


woodelf wrote:
> My personal bias is the pre-fetch buffer, you never know just
> what speed your cpu is running at. 

Okay, I can see that.  8086 was 6 bytes, 8088 was 4 bytes, NEC V20/V30 
was 6, 80286 was 8 bytes, 80386 was 16 bytes, etc.  I suppose it was 
good that (in the IBM PC, anyway) we had a 1.193181 MHz timer to play 
with, yes?  At least that wasn't variable...
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