Steve Baldwin wrote:
>
> > I avoid the Parallax set of instructions and warn beginners to stay away
> > even if they are familiar with 8051 operations.  I avoid it because
> > registers and Status register flags can get changed inadvertently without
> > the user neccessarily knowing it.
> >
> > On these points, what do other people think?
>

I shoul'd know this when i started with PICs. The first software i
was using was the parallax assembler and i lerned the parallax
version. Now am am still using it and somtimes i have to check
what the parallax assembler is generating and what the original
Mchip instructions realy do.

It was the first time i have seen a processor with two different
assembler mnemonics.

The parallax version makes it realy easy, if it was your first
RISC type processor.


St.