[OT] Re: writing a dailer in c for a 8051 based system

From: August Derleth (see_at_sig.now)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 03:52:30 -0600

On Wed, 26 May 2004 02:57:59 +0100, Malcolm wrote:

> What's an 8051? Is there an ng devoted to it?

It's a microcontroller[1] made by Intel. It is (or was) widely used in
things like keyboards and modems and microwaves and so on and so forth.

The best place to discuss 8051-related stuff is probably
comp.arch.embedded.

[1]A microchip designed to be used in an environment other than a PC,
server, router, or other obviously-computer environment. They typically
have a place to hardcode instructions (that is, onboard ROM space) and
might support odd word sizes to interface with specialty hardware. Low
power consumption and extremely low cost-per-chip often counts for more
than clock speed. 

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