ah no. I went through 5 AT89C2051's and they have all failed. I tried making various programmers for them but those chips will not co-operate, plus the flexibility is low.
What can you not do with the Atmel chip that the 8088 can do, because I can tell you at least 5 or 6 things off the top of my head the other way around.
Yes, because I learn electronics a lot more differently than the majority of the people. I learn through direct experimentation without ANYONE next to me in person helping me. I also learn that wrong actions generate burnt parts.
and No, because in real life, I'm not crazy. I'm just an ordinary guy.
I have never taken a course in electronics... I've never had anyone teach me anything about electronics in person... Everything I have learned has been through the internet. I've burned out 0 microcontrollers since I have been using them (though I have burned out a few supporting chips). Perhaps, instead of random experimentation, learn before hand what the right way of doing it is, and do it that way. These microcontrollers are very robust devices, and if you are toasting them on a regular bases, you are doing something seriously wrong.
My crazy comment was really just kidding around, but seriously, every post you make, makes me wonder what you are smoking. Is this for your project thats both radio modem and web server? cuz your questions in that thread really show you don't have any grasp of the software side of what you are trying to do or what hardware would be needed to make that odd project reality.
If you seriously want external ROM/RAM program addressable memory, you might want to look at the ARM chips. They are pretty popular now. JTAG programmable, 32 bit with external memory busses, and far more powerful than an 8088 and they don't require all those support chips to actually do anything.
http://www.open-research.org.uk/ARMuC/
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/param_table.asp?family_id=605&OrderBy=part_no&Direction=ASC
I wouldn't mind moving to the ARM platform, but I just can't think of a project that I would like to do that requires that kind of processing power.