Motronic and 8051

[Land Shark]

At 10:23 PM 1/21/98 -0800, you wrote:
>> Why doe's almost everybody use the 68hc11 ,. 68hc16 microcontroller,.
>> and almost nobody use MCS51 compatible(8031,.32,.51.,52) micro ?
>
>Some Bosch Motronic use 8051 variants.

 Actually MOST Motronic uses 8051.. 

 Started w/ 1802

 Then 8051, 8052, 80515/535, 80517

 Then onto MCS-96 (80C196)..

 The latest (M5.2) uses a chip that doesnt seem to exist, the 87C196KN

 I say doesn't exist because the the answers you get from Intel when
 you ask about it..

 Jim