I loved the Z80 back in the day and really wanted to get my hands on a Z8000 system... sadly, all these years later, I'm still waiting. the Z800 and Z80000 sound superb too (on board cache 10 years ahead of time) .... so sad that Intel "won" in the end.

This is pure gold!! Thanks for sharing it!

the aquisition of Zilog by Exxon took that company's CPU out of consideration for their IBM PC, so they went with the Intel 8088. Gee, if not for that, we might all be using PCs that have a Zilog Z8 quadzillion

That intro, each second I'm expecting to see Tom Baker's face and the old school Doctor Who theme :).

So much of what this video brags about is still relevant to modern processors and taught in computer science classes today. Too bad that Zilog didn't make it big with their 16- and 32-bit processors like they did with their widely-used (and still produced!) Z80. At least Zilog survived and is still in business!

All hail the Z80

Very impressive cgi for the time. 6 stage pipeline sounds pretty good, I think thats even better than a 486. Would been a pretty nice game system if it was ever used in one.

Thanks from latam. Una joya toda la información y el video inédito.

Why are they zooming in on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada starting at 0:40? The only reason I can think of is that segment was stock footage borrowed from the National Film Board.

'Thank GOD'🙏🏾 and thank you very much for sharing your support and time 😉 I am electronics/mathematics major 😁 I'd like to know 🙄 if it is possible to get a couple Z8000 CPUs 🙄

These fancy CGI effects only took 14 months to render lol

my dad was a programmer! but I never found him!

What happened 😬

90s people built different

Z80 Z800 Z8000 Z80000 I think I see a pattern here.

The z80 was good. It was compatible with the 8080, and also faster and better. It was also extremely well designed against reverse engineering. But the 6502 was ultimately more bang for buck, even if it was not compatible with anything, and had a limited stack. The z8000 was one of the losers of the 16 bit generation. The 68000 beat the competition hands down. It was twice as fast, and it had large linear address space, no io port, just memory mapped io. So the 68000 was simpler to code, faster, and was just as full-featured. That's why all workstations, and even IBM mainframes used it. In 1985 RISC was already in town. ARM made a 25000 transistor CPU that was factors faster than the 68000, and even faster than the 80386. And that was only the efficient branch of RISC technology. The more powerful branch were MIPS and SPARC. Those were faster and used only a third of the silicon that the 386 or 68020 did. If they had focused on the Z800, and would have pushed it out in 1980, then Zilog would have had a chance to have been picked for the IBM PC, and it would probably all have been different.

Is that Jerry Seinfeld as a young Mr. Zilog? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKdzhamj0cWdqnk.html

This is so 80s its not even funny