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    The Intel 8080 ("eighty-eighty") is the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel. It first appeared in April 1974 and is an extended...
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    last 8-bit microprocessor developed by Intel. It is software-binary compatible with the more-famous Intel 8080 with only two minor instructions added...
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    The IMSAI 8080 is an early microcomputer released in late 1975, based on the Intel 8080 (and later 8085) and S-100 bus. It is a clone of its main competitor...
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    role in the evolution of early computing. Software-compatible with the Intel 8080, it offered a compelling alternative due to its better integration and...
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    commercially successful design. This was followed by the Intel 8080, and then the hugely successful Intel x86 family. One of the first teams to build a complete...
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    Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January...
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  • system platforms. Intel marketed their 16-bit processor 8086 to be source compatible to the 8080, an 8-bit processor. To support this, Intel had an ISIS-II-based...
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    of a separate address bus (Intel was primarily a DRAM manufacturer at the time). Two years later, Intel launched the 8080, employing the new 40-pin DIL...
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    the 8080) and was intended to be Intel's major design for the 1980s. Unlike the 8086, which was designed the following year as a successor to the 8080, the...
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    memory offered greatly expanded capabilities, and the VT100 used the new Intel 8080 as its internal processor. In addition, the VT100 provided backwards compatibility...
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