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I'm more frequently known as Goliath tough, particularly on IRC. I work on mostly low-level software and am also an electronics enthusiast and GNUdist.

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The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

As of writing, the Zilog Z80 processor was officially launched 50 years ago, in July of 1976, less than 4 years after the last human had walked on the moon, decades closer to WWII than to the present day, roughly at a half way point between the Kennedy assassination and the fall of the Berlin wall, closer to the…