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		8080, a 8-bit microprocessor from Intel released in April 1974 running at 2 MHz. The 8080 is generally considered to be the first truly usable microprocessor. It had an 8-bit data-bus and 16-bit address-bus, allowing to address 64 KByte of memory, containing program code as well as data (Von Neumann architecture).
1974: 8080 Microprocessor [1]

Architecture

Intel 8080 Architecture [2]

Register Files

8080 had seven byte-registers: A, B, C, D, E, H, and L. A was the 8-bit accumulator for most arithmetical and logical instructions and the other six could be used as either byte-registers or as three 16-bit register pairs (BC, DE, HL) depending on the particular instruction. HL was also used as (a limited) 16-bit accumulator. It further had a 16-bit stack pointer register and an 16-bit instruction pointer. After a hardware reset ip was cleared zero and started to fetch the first instruction from that address.

Successors

Successor was Intel 8085 in 1977 with same instruction set but required less supporting hardware, and Zilog Z80 ^[3] .

Endianess

8080 and all it's successors were little-endian machines, concerning the byte-order of 16-bit words in memory.

Software

Operating Systems

• CP/M from Wikipedia
• ISIS (operating system) from Wikipedia

Development

• ASM 80 ^[4]
• C ^{[5] [6]}
• PL/M ^[7]
• Turbo Pascal ^[8]

Chess Programs

• 8080 Chess
• MicroChess ^[9]

See also

• 6502
• 6800
• SMS 201
• Z80

Publications

• Tandy/Radio Shack (1977). 8080-8085 Assembly Language Programming (Intel). |Internet Archive
• Kathe Spracklen (1979). Z-80 and 8080 assembly language programming. Hayden Books, amazon.com, Internet Archive

External Links

• Intel 8080 from Wikipedia
  KR580VM80A from Wikipedia
  Intel 8085 from Wikipedia
• 8080 Instruction Set - Computer Science Now
• 8080/Z80 Instruction Set
• Intel 8080 emulator by Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez

References

1. ^ Microprocessor Hall Of Fame
2. ^ Intel 8080 from Wikipedia
3. ^ Zilog Z80 from Wikipedia
4. ^ Kathe Spracklen (1979). Z-80 and 8080 assembly language programming. Hayden Books, ISBN: 978-0810451674, amazon.com
5. ^ The Almost Official MIX C for CP/M 80 Museum
6. ^ Floppy Software: List of C Compilers for CP/M
7. ^ ISIS, PL/M and Intel (c)Copyright Herb Johnson 2009 except as quoted remarks
8. ^ Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice For Programming Under CP/M
9. ^ MicroChess, a Chess playing program for the 8080 Microcomputer by Peter Jennings (pdf) © 2005 The Computer History Museum

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