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The Zilog Z80 microprocessor. Prefer [game-boy] instead for questions about the Game Boy CPU nicknamed the ‘GBZ80’.

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In 2020 are there fully assembled z80 devices available at reasonable cost?

These days, I really doubt anyone makes Z80-based SoCs with video generators. … This will run much faster than historical Z80 hardware. …
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"Mainframe" with Z80

I'm confident that the answer is "no", for two reasons: Z80-based system with the multiple megabytes of RAM that would be needed for something of the complexity of MVS have existed, but were always expensive … The Z80 architecture is not suited for emulating the 360/370 hardware features that MVS relies on. It doesn't have logical address spaces with logical-to-physical address mapping. …
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Managing registers/memory effectively on the Z80

It's quite a while since I did any Z80, but there's an important difference between classic Z80 systems and modern kinds of computer. Memory is fast. …
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