Editing Intel 8080 (section)

===Applications and successors===
{{anchor|8080 CPU family}}
The 8080 was used in many early microcomputers, such as the MITS [[Altair 8800]] Computer, [[Processor Technology]] [[SOL-20]] Terminal Computer and [[IMSAI 8080]] Microcomputer, forming the basis for machines running the [[CP/M]] operating system (the later, almost fully compatible and more able, [[Zilog Z80]] processor would capitalize on this, with Z80 and CP/M becoming the dominant CPU and OS combination of the period {{circa|1976}} to 1983 much as did the [[x86]] and [[DOS]] for the PC a decade later).

In 1979, even after the introduction of the Z80 and 8085 processors, five manufacturers of the 8080 were selling an estimated 500,000 units per month at a price around $3 to $4 each.<ref>{{cite news |last=Libes |first=Sol |title=Byte News |periodical=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] |issn=0360-5280 |volume=4 |series=11 |date=November 1979 |page=82}}</ref>

The first [[single-board computer|single-board microcomputer]]s, such as [[MYCRO-1]] and the ''dyna-micro'' / MMD-1 (see: [[Single-board computer]]) were based on the Intel 8080. One of the early uses of the 8080 was made in the late 1970s by Cubic-Western Data of San Diego, California, in its Automated Fare Collection Systems custom designed for mass transit systems around the world. An early industrial use of the 8080 is as the "brain" of the DatagraphiX Auto-COM (Computer Output Microfiche) line of products which takes large amounts of user data from reel-to-reel tape and images it onto microfiche. The Auto-COM instruments also include an entire automated film cutting, processing, washing, and drying sub-system.

Several early video [[arcade game]]s were built around the 8080 microprocessor. The first commercially-available arcade video game to incorporate a microprocessor was ''[[Gun Fight]]'', [[Midway Games]]' 8080-based reimplementation of [[Taito]]'s discrete-logic ''[[Western Gun]]'', which was released in November 1975.<ref name="stackexchange_1st_micro_coin-op">{{cite web|title=What was the first arcade game to use a microprocessor instead of discrete logic?|url=https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/613/what-was-the-first-arcade-game-to-use-a-microprocessor-instead-of-discrete-logic|access-date=2023-04-11|archive-date=April 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411143158/https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/613/what-was-the-first-arcade-game-to-use-a-microprocessor-instead-of-discrete-logic|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kent_8080_Gun_Fight">[[Steve L. Kent]] (2001), ''[[The ultimate history of video games: from Pong to Pokémon and beyond : the story behind the craze that touched our lives and changed the world]]'', p. 64, Prima, {{ISBN|0-7615-3643-4}}</ref><ref name=Akagi_Gun_Fight>{{cite book |last1=Akagi |first1=Masumi |title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971–2005) |trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005) |date=13 October 2006 |publisher=Amusement News Agency |lang=ja |location=Japan |isbn=978-4990251215 |page=124 |url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n125}}</ref><ref name="Demolition_Derby_game">{{cite web|title=Dave Needle and Jerry Lawson - Two Early Independent Video Game Designers|date=July 29, 2013 |url=http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/07/dave-needle-and-jerry-lawon-two-early.html|access-date=2023-04-11|archive-date=April 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411143158/http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/07/dave-needle-and-jerry-lawon-two-early.html|url-status=live}}</ref> (A pinball machine which incorporated a [[Motorola]] [[Motorola 6800|6800]] processor, ''[[The Spirit of '76 (pinball)|The Spirit of '76]]'', had already been released the previous month.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2294|title=Internet Pinball Machine Database: Mirco Games, Inc. 'Spirit of 76'|website=www.ipdb.org|access-date=2023-04-11|archive-date=April 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416224750/https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2294|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=wayout440|url=https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mirco-spirit-of-76-for-sale-the-first-solid-state-pin|title=Mirco Spirit of 76 for sale – THE first solid state pin?|website=Pinside.com|access-date=2023-04-11|archive-date=April 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411143207/https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mirco-spirit-of-76-for-sale-the-first-solid-state-pin|url-status=live}}</ref>) The 8080 was then used in later Midway arcade video games<ref name="Midway_8080_board">{{cite web|title=Midway 8080 System Boards|url=https://arcarc.xmission.com/Web%20Archives/Users.Erols.Com-mowerman%20(Aug-24-2003)/midway.htm|access-date=2023-04-11|archive-date=April 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411145527/https://arcarc.xmission.com/Web%20Archives/Users.Erols.Com-mowerman%20(Aug-24-2003)/midway.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> and in Taito's 1978 ''[[Space Invaders]]'', one of the most successful and well-known of all arcade video games.<ref name="KLOV_Space_Invaders">{{cite web |url=http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9662 |title=Space Invaders Videogame by Bally Midway (1978) |publisher=[[Killer List of Videogames]] |access-date=April 11, 2023 |archive-date=November 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125042142/http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9662 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="1UP_Space_Invaders">{{cite web |url=http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3168373 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226064943/http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3168373 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 26, 2009 |title=Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Space Invaders |website=[[1UP.com]] |author=Edwards, Benj|access-date=2023-04-11}}</ref>

[[Zilog]] introduced the [[Zilog Z80|Z80]], which has a compatible [[Machine code|machine language]] instruction set and initially used the same assembly language as the 8080, but for legal reasons, Zilog developed a syntactically-different (but code compatible) alternative assembly language for the Z80. At Intel, the 8080 was followed by the compatible and electrically more elegant [[Intel 8085|8085]].

Later, Intel issued the assembly-language compatible (but not binary-compatible) 16-bit [[Intel 8086|8086]] and then the 8/16-bit [[Intel 8088|8088]], which was selected by [[IBM]] for its new [[IBM PC|PC]] to be launched in 1981. Later [[NEC]] made the [[NEC V20]] (an 8088 clone with [[Intel 80186]] instruction set compatibility) which also supports an 8080 emulation mode. This is also supported by NEC's [[NEC V30|V30]] (a similarly enhanced 8086 clone). Thus, the 8080, via its [[instruction set architecture]] (ISA), made a lasting impact on computer history.

A number of processors compatible with the Intel 8080A were manufactured in the [[Eastern Bloc]]: the [[KR580VM80A]] (initially marked as КР580ИК80) in the [[Soviet Union]], the MCY7880<ref>[http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8080/Poland-MCY7880.html MCY7880—a Polish-made clone of 8080] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817083511/http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8080/Poland-MCY7880.html |date=August 17, 2016 }}. CPU World. Retrieved on October 23, 2011.</ref> made by Unitra CEMI in [[Poland]], the MHB8080A<ref name=cpuworld>[http://www.cpu-world.com/info/exUSSR-chips.html Soviet chips and their western analogs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209223725/http://www.cpu-world.com/info/exUSSR-chips.html |date=February 9, 2017 }}. CPU-world. Retrieved on October 23, 2011.</ref> made by [[Tesla (Czechoslovak company)|TESLA]] in [[Czechoslovakia]], the 8080APC<ref name=cpuworld/> made by [[Tungsram]] / MEV in [[Hungary]], and the MMN8080<ref name=cpuworld/> made by [[Electronics industry in the Socialist Republic of Romania|Microelectronica Bucharest]] in [[Romania]].

{{asof|2017}}, the 8080 is still in production at Lansdale Semiconductors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Intel – Microprocessor 8080A Family & 828X Series |url=http://lansdale.com/parts_reference.php?manufacturer=Intel&series=Microprocessor+8080A+Family+%26+828X+Series |author=<!--Unstated--> |publisher=Lansdale Semiconductor Inc. |access-date=20 June 2017 |archive-date=October 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151014132249/http://www.lansdale.com/parts_reference.php?manufacturer=Intel&series=Microprocessor+8080A+Family+%26+828X+Series |url-status=live }}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed" heights="150" caption="Intel 8080 [[second source]]s">
File:AMD C8080A.jpg|[[AMD Am9080]]
File:Poland MCY7880 1.jpg|CEMI MCY7880 (Poland)
File:580IK80.jpg|Kvazar Kyiv [[KR580VM80A|K580IK80]] (Ukrainian SSR)
File:Mitsubishi M5L8080AP 1.jpg|[[Mitsubishi Electric]] M5L8080
File:NatSem INS8080AJ 1.jpg|[[National Semiconductor]] INS8080
File:NEC 8080AF 1.jpg|[[NEC μPD8080AF]]
File:OKI MSM8080A 1.jpg|[[Oki Electric Industry|OKI]] MSM8080
File:Siemens SAB8080A 1.jpg|[[Siemens]] SAB8080
File:Signetics MP8080AI 1.jpg|[[Signetics]] MP8080
File:KL Tesla MHB8080.jpg|[[Tesla (Czechoslovak company)|Tesla]] MHB8080
File:TI TMS8080JL 1.jpg|[[Texas Instruments]] TMS8080
File:5G8080.jpg|5G8080 (PR China)
</gallery>