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Re: More info on the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Z80 CPU & rechargeable battery!
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2012, 05:46:28 pm »
so it's still z80 yet color?
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Re: More info on the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Z80 CPU & rechargeable battery!
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2012, 07:53:15 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on November 12, 2012, 02:58:49 pm
Nope, because TI apparently said that it was the exact same Z80 processor as the one present in the TI-84+ models.
Well I was not told "the exact same", but rather something like "kind of the same model", so maybe just a bit different (hopefully better frequency....)

And indeed, I/O port present.




EDIT : More info very soon thanks to TechPoweredMath !

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Just wrapped up with Texas Instruments official Dale Philbrick, who gave me the first interview where TI went on record about the new color TI-84+ C Silver Edition graphing calculator. I've got a ton of information for all of you, including what this means for the future of the TI-Nspire, and I plan to post later tonight."
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Re: More info on the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Z80 CPU & rechargeable battery!
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2012, 08:49:39 pm »
Quote from: Zilog documentation
Zilog’s eZ80® CPU is a high-speed, 8-bit microcontroller capable of executing code four times faster than a standard Z80 operating at the same clock speed. The increased processing efficiency of the eZ80 CPU improves available bandwidth and decrease power consumption. The eZ80 CPU’s 8-bit processing power rivals the performance of competitors’ 16-bit microcontrollers.

The eZ80 CPU is also the first 8-bit microcontroller to support 16 MB linear addressing. Each software module, or each task, under a real-time executive or operating system can operate in Z80-compatible (64 KB) mode or full 24-bit (16 MB) address mode.

The eZ80 CPU’s instruction set is a superset of the instruction sets for the Z80 and Z180 CPUs. The Z80 and Z180 programs are executed on an eZ80 CPU with little or no modification.
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Re: More info on the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Z80 CPU & rechargeable battery!
« Reply #18 on: November 13, 2012, 12:52:44 am »
Quote from: adriweb on November 12, 2012, 07:53:15 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on November 12, 2012, 02:58:49 pm
Nope, because TI apparently said that it was the exact same Z80 processor as the one present in the TI-84+ models.
Well I was not told "the exact same", but rather something like "kind of the same model", so maybe just a bit different (hopefully better frequency....)

And indeed, I/O port present.




EDIT : More info very soon thanks to TechPoweredMath !

Quote from: Tech Powered Math
Just wrapped up with Texas Instruments official Dale Philbrick, who gave me the first interview where TI went on record about the new color TI-84+ C Silver Edition graphing calculator. I've got a ton of information for all of you, including what this means for the future of the TI-Nspire, and I plan to post later tonight."
Glad to hear. At least we should probably still be able to transfer some programs to 83/83+ users or vice-versa (which lacks an USB port).

Also anyone willing to be that the first ever 84PCSE-only program will be a quadratic solver?
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Re: More info on the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Z80 CPU & rechargeable battery!
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2012, 01:02:17 am »
No, WFRNG must be the first thing we port.
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Re: More info on the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Z80 CPU & rechargeable battery!
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2012, 01:20:02 am »
I'm betting it's a distance formula.
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