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I am looking for a taxonomy of embedded processors. Which processors belong to which families? Who decends from whom?

Does anyone here know of a simple article that describes it?

+1  A: 

The Common Microcontrollers page on Wikipedia may be a place to start, or this shorter list in the Microcontrollers article.

Steve Melnikoff
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Instructables has a nice overview.

aldrinleal
I'm looking for a much more detailed review. E.g., the 8051 as compared to the 8080, or the Z80 versus the 8008, and which mainframe architectures influenced them.
Paul Nathan