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The Z80 family

Processor by Zilog, similar to Intel's 8080 but originally much cheaper. It was often used as the main processor in the home computers of 1985..1995. Another popular one was the 6502. Later the 68000 was often used in non IBM-PC computers.

Bank Switching

www.siliconengines-ltd.com/AN101.pdf - Application note about Z80 bank switching.

Books

Compiler

users.iafrica.com/r/ra/rainier/	Embedded Pascal
www.softools.com/	C compiler and emulator by Softools. Affordable and good code.

SDCC

A FreeWare openSource optimizing compiler for 8051 and Z80 based MCU's.
sdcc.sourceforge.net/

Emulator

discover-net.net/~dmkeil/

TRS-80 Emulator Pages by David Keil

FAQ

Z80
Local	Small FAQ
ftp.psyber.com/tcj/faqs/z80_faq.htm	Other FAQ
www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/3938/z80_home.htm	By Thomas Scherrer-Tangen
www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ubie/z80.htm	By Leonhard Schneider

Mailing list

(A mailing list is a discussion forum via email...)

See here.

Manufacturers

www.ab-semicon.com/ - AB Semicon is making a Z180 code compatible chip that runs one instruction per clock cycle at 20MHz
www.ab-semicon.com/products/index.html#Processors - More specific page
www.ab-semicon.com/products/ab180-20.pdf - Data sheet

OS

www.psyber.com/~tcj/uzi180.html - UZI180 RTOS*
www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/CPM-faq/faq.html - CPM