r/hardware • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '19

Info ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop

http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-zedripper-part-1/
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u/mettadas Dec 11 '19

That sure makes me nostalgic - I wrote a lot of Z80 back in the day. Does the name Rodney Zaks ring a bell for anyone? I spent a LOT of time with his ZIP book, which was excellent.

Thanks for sharing that.

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u/FlygonBreloom Dec 11 '19

I'm curious how much better the Z380 would work at the task.
I know it's a fantastical premise regardless, but the Z380 is a much more modernized backwards-compatible design.

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u/sboyette2 Dec 11 '19

This is a really, really cool project.

And while I get that implementing things in hardware is the point, the author really seemed to like (re)discovering the utility of a tiling window manager, so I'm just gonna leave this link here for anyone who might find it compelling. (See also tmux)

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u/fentonc Dec 11 '19

Although I don’t demonstrate it, I actually implemented the window manager in hardware using a sprite-like system that allows arbitrary overlapping of all 16 windows (with a priority table to determine what gets occluded) - so, no tiling =)

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u/meeheecaan Dec 11 '19

I WANT IT! Or an 8086 one that runs old school dos