The Z80 microprocessor is an 8 bit CPU with a 16 bit address bus capable of direct access of 64k of memory space.
It has a language of 252 root instructions and with the reserved 4 bytes as prefixes, acceses an additional 308 instructions.
The Z80 was modeled after the 8088 and contains the 78 - 8088 opcodes as a subset to it's language.
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http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/micro/z80.html
07/2008/2003
