Differences between Intel 8080 and 8085 processors
| Features | 8080 | 8085 |
| Processor speed (MHz) | 2 - 3.1 | 3 - 6 |
| Power supply | +5V, -5V and +12V | +5V |
| On-chip peripherals / components | | Clock oscillator (similar to 8224) system controller (similar to 8228) Serial I/O lines |
| Address/Data bus | Separate address and data busses | Multiplexed address and data |
| Pins/signals | | Reset Out pin RD bus signal WR bus signal IO/M bus signal ALE pin provides encoded bus status information |
| Interrupts | | Three maskable interrupts and one non-maskable |
| Instruction set | | RIM - read interrupt mask SIM - Set interrupt mask |
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re: Is a Clock Oscillator really a "peripheral"?
I've never thought of the Clock Oscillator of a microprocessor system as being a peripheral device; it's an essential device in a microprocessor's clock generation circuit. From what I've been learning, I'd only term a device as being a peripheral if it's connected to a micro's I/O ports!