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 11:17:08 -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> <1kga4c7.1wsdoap1cblzjeN%pippo2@disney.com> 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 11:17:08 -0600 Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-B1rZ+/tFNynnjzgSlm0OFD/GlhQ0e85/oN/FFCNO7FQY5EkKaCLKQ/hqTTM0zzhWBOzItipOc+eA1qP!VPicqwSuvyf7yUPP4V6Jm4lThvKI6ZmArnGEKlLr6PINWszuX7Nv7XLJgQ3Jb//G5Q2YlKx6Deg0!+yxWyVlyDjglvY0= 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: 2342 Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:7102 comp.os.linux.embedded:175 On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:08:01 +0100, Jack wrote: > Dennis wrote: > > >> My personal favorite is the Microchip Pic but others have their >> favorites! >> >> Microchip have heaps of online support, they're inexpensive, good >> support forums, a free & pretty striaght forward development >> environment...... > > and one of the worst achitecture ever (wella actually was good 30 years > ago)... Microchip is so interesting that way. The core sucks, but the peripherals are good, the current-drive capability of the I/O can't be beat, and the company seems to be as reliable as can be for dependable delivery and decent price. I know that when I have my hardware-guy hat or my purchasing-guy hat on, Microchip usually wins hands down. It's only when I put on my software- guy hat that I start bitching. (50MHz, specified to operate at 125C, a not-unreasonable instruction set for assembly-language programming -- how can we go wrong?) -- 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