I have been working on project for about 2 years using the PIC family of
microcontrollers. I now am starting to regret ever using PICs. It seems
that a 68HC11 will do almost everything a PIC can with many advantages
over a PIC. For one thing, I could have done debugging without an
expensive emulator. An eval board with buffalo monitor would have
worked. In volume the PIC16C74 costs about $5 in volumes of 100 from
digikey. The HC11 can be bought for about $1 these days. The HC11 also
has on-board flash. A savings of another $1. When you have 4
microcontrollers in a consumer product, those savings can be
significant. I also would not have had to deal with tedious an
meticulous chore of  bank switching, whether in program code or ram
pages My question, is why are people choosing the PIC family of
microcontrollers over the HC11, especially the PIC16C74? Perhaps I am
missing something.


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