Its more a case of people upping and saying that they want to use a 8052 as a engine controller on a rocket to mars rather than finding out what is involved in making a rocket engine controller and choosing a processor which suits the task.We have recently had MP3 players and video capture units proposed as 8052 tasks both of which are just a tiny bit beyond your average 8052 so its reverse engineering but not quite in the way which eric meant it i think.