Ted Fried emulates Intel 8080 microprocessor on Microchip ATtiny85 microcontroller

An Intel 8080 microprocessor has been successfully emulated on a tiny Microchip ATtiny85 microcontroller, demonstrating significant technological advancement. This MCL8080+ emulator, developed by Ted Fried, runs on the ATtiny85's limited resources, using a SPI serial bus and a cache to achieve performance comparable to the original hardware. The Intel 8080 was a foundational chip for early microcomputers and the CP/M operating system, originally requiring a much larger 40-pin package.