>     Microchip have been helpful, good support, good tools, and moderate
>     pricing...granted not the cheapest, not that far away though and I
>     can get the projects out the door at a reasonable cost.
>
> I was mostly thinking of the recent conversation where none of the newer
> flash chips are going to be available till december, which is hardly
> "getting projects out the door" if you're the poor guy who has to deliver in
> november...  In fact, it sounds very like the stories I've heard about
> motorola...
>
> BillW
>
I can handle it where the product is new.. annoying but
understandable.
But the 68HC11 series had been out for yonks when I was using it.
I have never had significant delivery problems with existing
PIC's.

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Lance Allen
Technical Officer
Uni of Auckland
Psych Dept
New Zealand

www.psych.auckland.ac.nz

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