Miles Fidelman writes: > It continually amazes me that the [Z80 is] still in production and > widespread use. I've got a pile of them upstairs. If I had an EPROM eraser (a programmer is easy to build) I'd use them instead of Atmel chips. > It could well be the most popular chip ever made for embedded > applications. That would be the Intel MCS48 family and/or the 8051. The latter is still in production as an ASIC core. -- John Hasler