ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop
Sounds like 1&#x2F;16th of a ZMOB! (&quot;The computer of the future, using the processor of the past.&quot;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ijcai.org&#x2F;Proceedings&#x2F;81-2&#x2F;Papers&#x2F;071.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ijcai.org&#x2F;Proceedings&#x2F;81-2&#x2F;Papers&#x2F;071.pdf</a><p>&gt;ZMOB: A NEW COMPUTING ENGINE FOR AI. Chuck Rieger, Randy Trigg, Bob Bane<p>&gt;ABSTRACT: 
A new research multiprocessor named ZMOB is
described, and its significance to AI research is
surveyed and characterized. ZMOB, under current
construction and scheduled for completion late
Fall 1981, is a 256 processor machine with a high
speed, interprocessor communications system called
the &quot;conveyor belt&quot;, a non-blocking, 20
megabyte&#x2F;second message switcher. Because of its
large number of processors, high computational
throughput (100 million instructions&#x2F;sec), large
cumulative high speed memory (16 megabytes), high
interprocessor communications bandwidth, and
external communications and sensing channels, ZMOB
opens some new areas of exploration in object-oriented modeling,
knowledge-based and domain
expert systems, intelligent sensing and robotics,
and distributed perceptual and cognitive modeling.
The paper attempts to blend a description of
ZMOB&#x27;s hardware with ideas about where and how it
fits into various types of AI research.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;5080&#x2F;fastest-cp-m-z80-based-computer-ever-built" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;5080&#x2F;fast...</a><p>&gt;The fastest Z80 computer ever designed and built was almost certainly ZMOB, a 256 node Z80A cluster designed and built at University of Maryland as part of NASA NSG-7253. That&#x27;s a total of 1GHz of Z80 power.