hi,
first of all, Kai - why are you so emotional: IMHO, professionals are reasonable people who like to think instead making public flames - it`s just a note (=
Indeed, reliability has many common with C51 but THIS thread does nothing except the topic (okay-dokay, correction: it does very seldom).
About questions you posted: you are right! Most of these questions are close with reliability and MCU. But again: re-read messages of the thread and how many similar questions will you found? Nope. One man talks about cars, next one about socks; then I read about lightning, professionals (you are not first person said it about yourself :) , about US and European companies, about Z80 (wow, I have worked with it above 15 years till now - but what does it do in THIS forum? :) , I read about notebooks, etc
After all, probably there is only one message (your message, yeah!) which is really related and useful: http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=63173

So, saying nothing about people here, I type again: the thread comes out of forum mainstream. Next time I would start thread with topic "Black vs White" and be sure - it will be related to C51 because my C51 has black box with white label on it (=

Regards,
Oleg