At 19:47 01/16/99 -0600, John Payson wrote:
>The microcontroller and PC markets are very different.  It
>would seem like Intel's behavior if they ran Microchip would
>more likely resemble their behavior with regard to the 8x51
>than their behavior with regard to the 8x86.

actually, it seems to me that intel left most of the 8051 market to other
companies which were more creative in integrating interessant peripherals
and enhance it otherwise, eg. philips, siemens, dallas. but at least they
didn't screw it up :-)

ge