Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?

["Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@ping.at>]

Bruce Tomlin wrote:

> As many others have replied, there were plenty of Z80 computers with 
> color.

Also the MC68000 and faster cousins.

> 
> If anything, it had to do with the cost of the CPUs back in the day.
> In the '70s, many CPUs were relatively expensive (as much as $200),
> and you could only buy them in larger quantities like 1000 or more.

Yeah, the seventies.

> 
> The 6502's success was in large part due to when it appeared at a 
> computer show in the late '70s and was literally being sold right out
> of the shipping boxes for $25 each.  So it ended up becoming the
> choice for early "home" computers where price was important.  And the
> Z80 got used for "business" computers, particularly because it had
> CP/M available for it.

I know the Z80 for machine-code Arcade. Though its processing power
makes a good Home Computer. Low Budget, too.

> 
> Later on when there wasn't a price premium for CPUs other than the
> 6502, the Z80 got used in all sorts of new budget computers.


You must be joking. The Z80 (and cousins with more MHz and special I/0
etc.) made the greatest turnover of all 8bit CPU�s. Konami, SEGA,
ATARI, Capcom, STERN, Nintendo, Nichibutsu, and so much more ....


Don�t say Sir Sinclair could know this all being, just out of
'Galaxians' - one of the first Z80 Games 1979 (3.072MHz, Sound Samples).
Maybe foreseen, but never known.

Just believe it. His choice to take a z80 was marvelous!



Well, the 68000 is a superb processor but already 32bit and not easy
for anyone but much more capable than i80386 and the rest of the
spaghetti-gang. The z80 is much easier, more effective (see industrial
integrations for the mighty Z80) and highly adaptable, due to
z80-design. Low Power Consumption, Silent, extendable, programmable and
so on.




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic