> A very good point indeed.  As the difficulty goes up, so does the cost.  At
> some point it costs you more to clone than to code it yourself.  I think
> that's the real target.
>
> I don't know why they don't just move over to FLASH like Atmel has done.
>
> Andy
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I understand that the technology is slower. This is the reason the
84's are 10MHz max. The reason you won't see EEPROM on the other PICs
is because the EEPROM memory can only be produced on chips that
use the same technology to store the program memory.
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Friendly Regards

Tjaart van der Walt
mailto:tjaart@wasp.co.za
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