at a recent survey of proposed 16 bit new devlopements the ARM, of course, had the major share but both Philips and Siemens had about 10% of the proposals with their "16 bit '51s". The 251 was relegated to "others".

I have always held that Intel lost out in the 16 bit '51 area by concentrating more on compatibility than performance. I was once assigned a 2 month task of choosing between the 251, the XA and the 16x and the 251 was the first to go.

Erik