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processor The successor to the
Intel 8008. The 8080 had a
8-bit
registers (six which could also be combined as three
replaced the 8008's internal stack and a 16-bit
programcounter. It also had 256 I/O ports (so I/O devices could be
connected without needing to allocate any addressing space as
allowed the
stack to occupy a separate bank of memory.
[Date?]
(1994-10-31)