Erik said:

"Here in the 11.0592 '51 community we are trying to do more with less and BASIC has no place on the '51, except for amateurs with no desire to become professional, whereas for a PC program running on a multigigahertz processor it may very well be the right choice."

Well maybe I was an amateur, but I was able to use BASIC to build a nice piece of test equipment. It had a display, keyboard, an array of reed relays, sine wave generator, timing constrants and everything. BASIC worked very well. The timing didn't need more than sub millisecond resolution.

Russ