Z80 instruction fetch mechanism

[Jim Battle]

Steven Hirsch wrote:
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> Wasn't the Z80 a microcoded design?

no!  the same guy who did the 8080 layout, masatoshi shima, did the z80 layout.  He also 
did the z8000 layout, which was much more complex, but was also not microcode, just random 
logic.

I just found this while googling to support my answer, but i've only skimmed it - a 47 
page interview with Shima, done by the CHM:

http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/history_center/oral_history/pdfs/Shima197.pdf