Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.web-ster.com!news.web-ster.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:04:01 -0600 From: Tim Wescott Subject: Re: I would like to Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.os.linux.embedded References: <4f4f5b48$0$5046$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:04:01 -0600 Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-uKl/beU0hd6wJaVDT7W1Fhg/J1BGxASd1k77mTy7Ucfri/bqI7CVcclmvhejqQq+pUj05p0mDqZb9ba!fpVwKQaweR2cBMVZsOaI7KEMbwdoyzRLb5eL8F6hWsE2k3M1MF3dbvJZCgemNguAyzcm0jfRoX84!x8C1JROJuYk74Ss= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1915 Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:7114 comp.os.linux.embedded:180 On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:26:16 +0000, Dave wrote: > Tim Wescott wrote: > > >> A plain old PIC. Only 35 easy-to-learn instructions (that used to be >> their slogan -- hah). They called it "RISC" processor, but it's really >> a NHISC (Never Had an Instruction Set Computer). But -- it's not a bad >> processor as long as you never use a decent one. >> > I'd choose an MSP430 over a PIC, it has the luxury of being 16-bit, too. > The AVR processors are fun, too. I've used PICs in the past, but never > really gotten on with them. A 430 wouldn't be a bad choice, either. -- My liberal friends think I'm a conservative kook. My conservative friends think I'm a liberal kook. Why am I not happy that they have found common ground? Tim Wescott, Communications, Control, Circuits & Software http://www.wescottdesign.com