At 02:22 30/10/96 GMT, Andres Djordjalian wrote:
>And also I guess the 4K-word ROM on the 16C73 is equivalent to almost 10K
>bytes on another micro, and more if it's programmed with a HLL, ...

What makes me wonder with such comparisons: 4k 16bit words already _equals_
8k with no added efficiency involved, so the 10k _bytes_ on another micro is
not too far off the 8k _bytes_ which is 4k words... Seems the microchip did
a good marketing trick to introduce 16bit _words_ as the base of their
codes: one of the big arguments is that all instructions are 1 word == 16bit
wide (on the bigger ones) -- but the average instruction in a typical 8031
code is way smaller than 2 bytes, as there usually are few with more than 2
bytes, but some with only 1. They just cannot claim that it is _one_ something.