> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Chops Westfield [SMTP:billw@CISCO.COM]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 7:39 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [PIC]: PIC vs AVR ?
>
> > How can any programmer program the F877 in 10 seconds?
> >
> > Lets see.
> > 8192 x 0.01 = 81.92 Seconds program time alone. This is before you add
> the
> > serial comms overhead of 4 bytes @ 19200 baud.
>
> Where did you get 0.01 seconds per byte downloaded?  19200 is more like
> 0.0005 seconds per byte (or .001 per byte of object code, in hex.)
>
> BillW
>
The 0.01 seconds per byte is the *programming* time, not the download time
which is added on top of this figure.

Mike