I know the 8051. I have used it, and liked it, and cut my MCU teeth on it. I just don't know why it is still so prevalent today. Especially in education.
It certainly is a venerable chip. No doubt about that. But, for Pete's sake, I was a very young man when it came out 30 years ago! Why on earth are such a huge number of institutions still basing embedded training on such a old design? Surely there a better and more pertinent choices today. No?
Is it because it was the first? Using logic like that we should still be using tubes for amplifier courses and relays for logic.
Am I wrong? Is it not time that we put the 8051 to bed?
It certainly is a venerable chip. No doubt about that. But, for Pete's sake, I was a very young man when it came out 30 years ago! Why on earth are such a huge number of institutions still basing embedded training on such a old design? Surely there a better and more pertinent choices today. No?
Is it because it was the first? Using logic like that we should still be using tubes for amplifier courses and relays for logic.
Am I wrong? Is it not time that we put the 8051 to bed?