Re: free 8085 microprocessor assembler for windows

The 8085 became popular because it only needed a single power supply,
but was otherwise an 8080. The mux'ed addr bus opened up some more pins
that made it good for control apps.

The 8051 was a incredible chip, and is still competitive due to the
many enhancements a lot of companies have made. It was the barrel
shifter and internal UART that made the things fly off the shelf. Then
the CMOS version added more life to it, and I liked the Dallas parts
that cut down the internal clock cycles to make them 4X faster.

Now you can get 8051's with just about anything integrated into it:
USB, Ethernet, etc.

I think they will still be around many years from now. That kind of
momentum doesn't stop easily.

For what its worth, I switched to the 68hc11 some years back, and now I
use the newest 9s12 devices. These trace their roots back to the 6800,
which is just a little newer than the 8080. I don't remember when the
6800 came out, exactly, but I used one in 1978 if I remember correctly.

Eric

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