please dont let your aggressive feelings get control of you,
I am sorry if you see it as agression that I disagree with you, especially on including the stupid 8255 in any new design.
I push and push for the new stuff to be new, not a carryover from what your professor learned when he went to college and the king of diamonds were still a jack.
If you see it as agression that I disagree with you on making a prototype board an attempt to make a ubniversal board - which I have seen fail numerous times - so be it.

Erik