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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Iirc, theyre the last products still using a z80, which was launched in the seventies. Keeping an entire chip fab open for one thing isnt cheap, even if its for something like a z80

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At the same time, there's no reason why they couldn't upgrade to something else. You can do everything a graph calculator does on your cellphone using websites...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The z80 actually just went EOL last week! After nearly 50 years.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but they're still making the ez80 for the calculators. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_eZ80

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Ah, duh! Totally forgot about that part of the article, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If it's good enough for Phantasy Star it's good enough for me.