Dan Henry wrote:
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I should mention (and have in the past) that I like 8051s. I like 68HC-whatevers. I like PICs. I like 32-bit RISC controllers. I like whatever my clients pay me to like ;-)

Quite true and moreover I have to go by the current flavor of reliablilty. This topic has started like a fishing expedition, now on a road littered with sharp retorts and one liner heading towards flaming, and the original poster has gone home leaving behind a can of worms.