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to market. Several multi-chip 16-bit microprocessors existed by this point, but they were all based on existing minicomputer designs and were generally too expensive for general use. Single-chip versions of these emerged, but they remained expensive. He felt that expanding the Z80 to 16-bits was not appropriate; the larger computer word size meant that many more features could be offered in the instruction set, and the deliberately

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