Olivetti L1 M20 Zilog Z8001 - Episode 5

It’s October and we all know that call’s for a series of OliTober videos. Celebrating all things Olivetti In this final episode, there are a few things we need to talk about! In 1979, the design team at Olivetti’s Advanced Technology Center in Cupertino, California started to build a real 16bit computer. At that same time, Zilog also released their first 16bit microprocessor the Z8000 series and Olivetti made the choice to use the Zilog Z8001 CPU instead of the Intel 8086. Episode 1: Episode 2: Episode 3: Episode 4: #OliTober #Olivetti #Zilog