It's something that keeps getting rediscovered. I know embedded industry shoehorns all kinds of problems into 8- and 16-bitters. Some even use 4-bit MCU's. Might be worthwhile if someone does a survey of all the things you can handle easily or without too much work in 8-16-bit cores. This might help for people building systems out of existing parts or people trying to design heterogenous SOC's.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244398
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1140287
It's something that keeps getting rediscovered. I know embedded industry shoehorns all kinds of problems into 8- and 16-bitters. Some even use 4-bit MCU's. Might be worthwhile if someone does a survey of all the things you can handle easily or without too much work in 8-16-bit cores. This might help for people building systems out of existing parts or people trying to design heterogenous SOC's.