Tjaart van der Walt wrote:

> With the 16 bit instruction width, you get
> 1) 120 instructions
> 2) 32 X 8 bit general purpose working registers
> 3) Linear memory space (no banking shit)
>
> These three features take you waaaaay further than
> twice the 14 bit memory in a PIC. Check your code -
> you will find that the banking commands take up
> *at least* 17% (up to 25%) of your code space in a PIC.
> Add 8 MIPS and a stack that you can read/write to.
>
> Oh, yes - they sell for much less than the PIC OTP's.
>
> A Mchip marketing guy yesterday told me that they can
> compete with any other OTP price out there. Hahahahaha.

You are absolutely right.  I was just being a pig
when I expected to get twice as much code space.
We've moved to the AVR's for most of our new
designs.  The PIC just can't compete on a
bang-for-the-buck basis.

Mark Walsh