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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Z80 trst circuit
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:11:46 +0000
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Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

>> Do you have Any advice re this?
> 
> Not really. Ada 2012 is way different than the subset of Ada 83 that we had 
> on the Z80. I don't remember off-hand precisely what Ada features were 
> available on that compiler; I know we had some software floating point, and 
> certainly not any tasking. But certainly there wasn't anything like tagged 
> types, or dispatching, or preconditions.

You can definitely do multitasking on Z80, I've seen projects that do it,
they use memory banking to implement it though.

Luke.