On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:10:05 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 10/01/2015 12:49 PM, Don Y wrote:
Zilog's most coloosal blunder was in not leveraging their Z80
successes (Z280, Z8000, Z80000, Z380, etc.) effectively.
They had to rely on Hitachi to breathe continued life into
the family with the '180 devices...

They tried. I was somewhat ****ed when IBM put the Good Housekeping Seal
of Approval on the 8088 piece of crap rather than the Z8000. Turns out
Exxon had bought a major stake in Zilog and IBM was in a ****ing contest
with Exxon so the Z8000 was never on the table. The 68008 had been
considered but IBM didn't think Motorola could reliably supply parts. At
that time Motorola had a bad rep of hanging you out to dry if they got a
massive contract from the auto industry.

A well earned reputation too.

I still have a Captain Zilog t-shirt around here someplace.