Perry the platypus

The Zilog **Z80** is a software-compatible extension and enhancement of the Intel 8080 and, like it, was mainly aimed at embedded systems. Although used in that role, the Z80 also became one of the most widely used CPUs in **desktop** computers and home computers from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.[3][4] It was also common in military **applications**, musical equipment such as synthesizers (like the Roland Jupiter-8), and coin-operated arcade games **of** the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Pac-Man. > Zilog licensed the Z80 to the US-based Synertek and Mostek, **which** had helped them with initial production, as well as to a European second-source manufacturer SGS. The design was also copied by several Japanese, East European and Soviet manufacturers.[ii] This won the Z80 acceptance in the world market since large companies like NEC, Toshiba, Sharp, and Hitachi started to manufacture the device (or their own Z80-compatible clones or designs).