Re: I still like the 8051




Colin Paul Gloster wrote:

Guy Macon seems to have missed the joke.

Why would you think that?

Martin Griffith made fun of processors originating from Intel
including 8051s and the processors which the hyperlink is
actually about.

No he didn't. He made fun of the buggy Core Duo while
praising the bug-free 8051. I responded by saying that
I like it too.

I think he also made a sly references the fact that some
folks tend to assume that just because the embedded systems
they work on have multi-gigahetz x86 processors or high-end
DSPs that must mean that everybody uses them. They ignore
PICs, 8051s, ARMs, etc. and have never even heard of Elan/
EMC, WinBond, or SunPlus -- any one of which easily sells a
thousand times more processors per year than the entire x86
market (that's units sold; dollar volume is smaller and
profits are much smaller).

--
Guy Macon
<http://www.guymacon.com/>


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