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The 8086 was designed to allow automated translation of 8080 assembly to 8086 assembly - so the instruction set may ‘look’ different but in fact has a lot in common.

Not quite right too to call the Z80 an ancestor of the 8086 but certainly closely related due to the common inheritance from the 8080.




Yeah, perhaps more of an uncle than a direct ancestor :)


Indeed - someone should do a family tree of CPUs!


We need to decide where the NEC v20, v30, v40, and v50 live.


And the NSC-800, which is like a Z80 with 8085 half-interrupts!


It’s the offspring of the marriage of Z80 and 8085!




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