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Re:Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis by spacemanmatt on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:55AM (#30498884)
No, 8051 is just a sloppy piece of silicon. I wrote a symbolic linker and tokenizer for B-52 BASIC and an EPROM formatter so we could cross-develop on PC. We just had a busy little system and 8051 was not very reliable for anything realtime.
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