Celebrating 50 Years of the Zilog Z80: A Legacy of Computing

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

I reflect on the 50th anniversary of the Zilog Z80, tracing its journey from the Intel 8008 and 8080 to becoming a cornerstone of early personal computers and industrial systems. My own teenage experiments building a Z80 computer taught me invaluable lessons about systems engineering, while the chip's enduring presence in devices like the GameBoy highlights its remarkable impact on technology history.

"Writing a linker is a lot harder than writing an assembler, writing a compiler is something you can actually do."