[rescue] Question: VME SBC on EBay

[Tim H.]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:44:58 -0400
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> And that was just
> 8051-derivatives...a 20+-year-old architecture that lots of embedded
> developers don't like.

Really?  I didn't realize they were not well thought of.  I haven't done
any serious work with controllers, and I learned on 8085 and 8051 in
college, so I kind of assumed they were a popular series.  What does
make up the bigest family of embedded stuff? 68000 relatives?

Tim