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Pre-emptive Z80 multitasking explainer

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Funniest 8080-era multitasker was made by Siemens in 1976. Instead of allocating memory from common RAM, they just switched small RAMs mechanically. You only needed to dump registers at each switch. Particularly economical in 8080 which is not good for indexed memory models like Z80.