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Re: A simple CP/M Z80 SBC without glue logic [message #6147 is a reply to message #6146] Fri, 15 March 2019 09:39 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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wsm: agreed - the reason for wiring it to A15 is it means you can then attach other stuff to it later, otherwise you are constrained to the single KIO, whereas if you wire it to A15, fit an optional RC2014 connector and wire the IRQ line from the RC2014 to a PIO pin you get *all* of the RC2014 I/O features including being able to manage the RC2014 interrupt line in IM2 mode for free (more than most RC2014 CPU cards can do!Wink. Come to think of it if you decided to pull the RAM and ROM chips I think you get all of RC2014 later if you wanted ?

Extra RAM looks more awkward though - the 512K RAMs seem to drop CE2.
 
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